We said goodbye to Santa Fe Skies RV Park about 8:00 a.m. on Friday and headed north toward Pueblo, CO for windshield repair.

All buildings within old Santa Fe city limits must conform to the "pueblo-style" architecture .  Many homeowners outside city's limits prefer that style as well.

We drove past the BLM Public Information Office in Santa Fe--didn't stop!

Abandoned homestead in northern New Mexico

All along the highways between Santa Fe and Las Vegas, New Mexico  (mostly on adjacent parallel roads)  we saw groups of people walking.  We discovered that they were all heading to a local church for Good Friday services.  These types of pilgramages occur throughout the country, but it was interesting to see it first-hand.

We reached Pueblo, CO just about 1 p.m. a busy time of day to drive through this part of the town to find the SafeLite Windshield business.  Although we had been assured that we could easily maneuver this beast into their repair lot that information was WRONG!  It was a tight fit but Corky managed to drive to the back lot, unhook the car, park the car, then turn the RV around before the repair work could be accomplished.  

The boys and I took advantage of the sunshine and grassy slope behind the facility to wait out the repair.  We were on our way to  Colorado Springs within an hour.  

However, while in Pueblo, the wind began to blow, and blow, and blow!  40 MPH gusts nearly blew us off the road.  The 50 miles to Colorado Springs KOA was exhausting.  The dusty winds were so bad that we couldn't see the mountains just to the west of the interstate.  Even the nightly news program had a brief  segment reporting on winds up to 70 mph in the Colorado Springs area.  

The windy conditions abated overnight and we awoke on Saturday to beautiful clear blue skies.  The view of pike's Peak from the RV park was stunning!

It was only a short distance from Colorado Springs to our next stop in Golden where we would stay for the weekend and visit with good friends Barry & Nancy Krebs who live in Lakewood.  The weather was gorgeous.   We stayed at the Dakota Ridge Park for two nights.

Before we went to Barry's & Nancy's place on Easter Sunday afternoon, we visited the Red Rocks Park & Amphitheater in Morrison, CO only a few miles from where we were staying.

Red Rocks park is located where the Great Plains meets the Rockies.  It is at an elevation of about 6,500 feet and offers great recreational opportunities among fabulous rock formations. Additionally, the amphitheater has wonderful accoustics and boasts musical performances by well known musicians.  Here are a few pics:

This is a mockup of the amphitheater

You can almost see the Denver skyline at the right of the photo

One of the interesting sights at Red Rocks!

We left Colorado on Monday and overnighted in Grand Island, Nebraska.

As we get nearer to Minnesota, the temperatures grow colder and colder---darn!  Tonight we are Watertown, South Dakota where it is supposed to dip into the high 20s.  We found a casino that offers free RV sites--well, after we buy dinner and play a few slots I guess it's really not free.  Tomorrow only a short 4-hour drive to DL.  

Hope there's no snow!