1412 miles from home.
It snowed today. When we got up in the morning in Santa Fe it was coming down lightly and as we drove south towards the Lone Mountain Cattle Company ranch it got more intense, but it still wasn’t sticking to the ground. As we went through Madrid we both agreed that the snow made the town look nicer. As we crested the last hill towards the gate at the ranch the snow stopped. But that is the way it went all day, sometimes it would be coming down (well, mostly sideways, because of the constant winds) and other times it would almost clear up. The photo above shows the Sales Office for tomorrow?s big Waygu beef auction during one of the snowy times.
We visited with Scott and James for a while before it was time for lunch. The folks here have been really great to us, we have been invited to eat every meal with the crew and we don?t have to even once clean out a cow stall or haul hay or anything. We?ve eaten one meal a day so far there, today?s lunch was chicken quesadillas, last night was fried catfish and the night before was waygu burritos. Tomorrow we will probably eat lunch with them, because afterwards is the big auction that is a definite must see.
We made 2 half-hearted attempts at caching today. One was near an outlet mall, but the GPSr was pointing .17 miles down a dirt road, usually that wouldn?t stop us, but there was a big official road closed sign and actual construction happening on it. The other was on the side of a very busy 4 lane divided highway. Did I mention it was snowing, windy and cold?