August 30-September 19, 2011 – Chama, New Mexico
We left Cortez on Tuesday, August 30 th and drove to Pagosa Springs, CO where we spent the night at Happy Camper RV, a campground a few miles west of town. Wednesday morning we headed to Chama, NM where we will stay for the month of September. We are again staying at one of our favorite campgrounds, Rio Chama RV Park. We have a very nice site on the end of the row with a large grassy area and shade trees. Rex is enjoying volunteering as a docent on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad again this year. He rides about 4 times a week and is enjoying talking to the passengers and spotting wildlife. So far he has seen a bear and lots of elk, deer and antelope. Nancy is also volunteering one day a week at a new railroad display that has been set up in the Cumbres Mall. She talks to visitors about the model and the railroad. There is an S scale model of the Cumbres Station as it was in 1950 and TV monitors that are used to ...