Raton Pass, 7,888 Elevation!!

Sunday May 19, 2019

We got up, a quick breakfast, packed and on the road about 9:45.  We are headed up to Raton, NM to

View out our front window!!

the CG at the Raton Pass, elevation 7888, on the border of New Mexico and Colorado.  It was an uneventful ride, a stop for fuel and another for lunch, but we were here, parked and settled in by 2:00 PM.  It is absolutely beautiful, the views you can see forever and the wind blows at a constant 35 MPH.  Needless to say there is no sitting out up here.  We are only here for 3 nights, so we'll enjoy the view and be happy with that.

Monday May 20, 2019

We headed down the north side of the mountain into Trinidad, CO about 10:30.  First stop was the Visitors Center then a trip down main street.  We ended up parking on Main Street and walking about

Sleet on the truck and ground!

4-5 blocks to visit the shops that were open and stopped at a place called the Café for lunch.....not bad and we beat the crowd.  The museum was closed, and only a few stores and junk shops were open, seems over half the shops are closed on Mondays but we stopped at what we could.  We ended up heading home about 2:30 and by 4:00 the wind has picked up and it was sleeting.  We were glad we were here and enjoyed a roast and turnips for dinner.

Tuesday May 21, 2019

We woke up this morning to 5-6 inches of snow on the ground, what a shock.  Now what do we do, we had planned on heading into Raton, NM, but.....  About 11:00 the snow was melting pretty good so we took our chances and headed down to town.  We drove through town just to check things out and then stopped and got some wine, a trip through Bealls, then off to find a place for lunch.  We stopped at K-Bob's Steak House, the food was OK and we don't really need to stop at another one.  After that a trip to the Chamber of Commerce and then a trip up 2nd street to the museum.  But first we walked a block or so and stopped at a country western store, a store that had soooo much stuff it took us about 45 min. to walk through it, then off to the Raton History Museum.  We paid our fee and the curator offered to give us a tour or we could take our own, we opted for our own.  Now it just so happened that the first two things we stopped to look at he gave us the history on it from the front desk, so yep we asked him to be our tour guide, he was so knowledgeable and we wouldn't have gotten 1/10 out of that museum if we had walked through it alone.  This was a big coal mining area and there is a mine here called the Blossburg Mine, named after the guys home town of Blossburg, PA....what a small world.  There is a lot of history in this area, now we are thinking we need to come back and spend some more time touring the area.....that seems to happen every where we go. 

5-6" of snow Tuesday morning! And at 5:00 pm 58 degrees and Sunny.

Everything is melted and it's beautiful and no wind!!