Abiquiu Lake and Ghost Ranch

On our way to the Army Corps of Engineers campground at Abiquiu Lake we crossed the Continental Divide.  We believe that this is the 5th time that we've crossed the Divide this summer.

We set up camp across a little gully from John and Jane Stoffer. And then we went to dinner at the Abiquiu Inn.  Abiquiu is a very small town (inn, post office, general store, art gallery, and Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and house.) On Thursday (today) we went back to the grocery store and the art gallery.  In the morning we toured the Georgia O'Keeffe house.  It was fascinating.  She was a very private person and loved living in New Mexico - in Abiquiu during the winter and at Ghost Ranch in a house she owned there during the summer (just a little north of here.) One of her favorite subjects were the cottonwood trees that grow around here where there is a water supply.  The picture below is an old cottonwood that is growing outside of the art museum.

On the grounds of Ghost Ranch, an education and retreat center now owned by the Presbyterian Church USA, some archeology and paleontological digs have taken place. There is a museum that we visited that had some dinosaur bones, including the "State Fossil of New Mexico."

And above some of the buildings is a formation called Chimney Rock as well as many beautiful rock cliffs on the property.  We walked all around.  Visited all the gifts shops and museums, Bob and Jane walked the Labyrinth, and we snooped in one of the old adobe houses built in the late 1800's.  It was a great day all around.  It's been raining quite constantly since we got here, so we had soup and salad, that Jane had made for supper, in the Phoenix Cruiser.


Chimney Rock on the skyline