Monday: Miles traveled today 95. Elevation tonight: 6,940 in Taos New Mexico.
This is the first day that we had a schedule that we had to make! We had reservations to spend the day on a scenic railway, so we needed to get to Antonito Colorado before 9:30. Our train would leave the station at 10:00. Antonito was just 30 miles south of Alamosa, so we got up, went to Starbucks for morning wake-up, and tootled on down the road. Poor Sonny was showing a low tire pressure… but we figure it must have been due to the 4o degree weather this morning! Kenny checked all the tires, and they were fine.
We arrived in Antonito in plenty of time, picked up our tickets, and waited for the “all aboard!”. Our tickets were for seats in “coach”, and we were assigned seats in this third red car. There are two nicer classes that had chairs that you could move and look directly outside. Our seats were forward facing and this was going to be just fine for us.
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