Saskia and Richard's RVing Adventures

So we have changed our RVing lifestyle for a slightly less sedentary and more industrious one.  However, it is not nearly as industrious as the lifestyle followed by the ancients, who lived here in the Americas first.  As previously described , their Puebloan lifestyle might be considered simple compared to ours, but they were none the less highly sophisticated according to their means and time, and the footsteps they left are awe inspiring.  You can read even more here  Of course, their simple lives changed in the 16 th Century, when those who first conquered the south-west of America, the Spaniards, arrived and eventually forcibly influenced the way of life of the indigenous peoples of the land they called New Mexico.  Some things change, but others don’t. Richard and I start the day around 8 am, by building the fire, to top up the central heating of the house.  Since moving here 5 weeks ago, we have had three snowfalls, and recently daytime temp...

No, the title of this blog does not refer to Richard and I.  Even though we recently seem to have been weathering our fair share of age related agonies!  In fact, this last week, we have yet again raised the injury stakes in our game of who can hurt themselves the worst.  Richard made his call with a twisted knee – gained during his first game of Pickleball, (a smaller version of tennis popular with retirees) and exacerbated during his second game the day before we left Montrose.  I saw his knee and raised him with a bumped knee of my own.  You gotta love how competitive old farts can get! I was worried that Richard’s incapacitated knee would put a stop to our sightseeing capabilities.  But he is more of a trooper than I anticipated. Having applied ice packs and rested for a couple of days he limped along stoically as we walked around the beautiful campsite we were staying in, in Bayfield, about 20 miles east of Durango. It even has its own Alpaca to k...