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356 miles today, Kayenta, AZ to Taos, NM. Stel­lar weather the whole way, 60s and 70s and no clouds. Much of the morn­ing was spent cross­ing the east­ern hald of the Navajo nation. It’s fairly obvi­ous that, at least in this area, the Navajo are not get­ting rich off of gam­bling, maybe a few, but many of the rural Navajo still appear quite poor. Some­where in east­ern AZ, (I think), I crossed the Con­ti­nen­tal Divide.

Then I headed for Dulce and Charma, to get to high­way 64. Phil rec­om­mended that road, OMG was he right! miles and miles of long, flow­ing switch­backs climb­ing up the moun­tain side like a home­sick angel. from 7000ft in Tierra Amar­illo to 10,586 at the top. And it was chilly up there. Still, if you get a chance to ride this road, take it. You will not be sorry you did. Well, maybe if you’re on a DRZ-400, I’d guess it’d get seri­ously wheezy and down on grunt at 10,500ft! :-)



Taos is a cute lit­tle town, old time ranch­ing town, now made artsy by the influx of artists and $$$. Still, not a bad lit­tle town. And the nice RV park on the south end of town has WiFi!

rub­ber side down, every­one!
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