July
29th
I
can’t keep track of the days nor our schedule so I’m gonna try and see what I
remember. We are currently on our way from Cortez to Monument Valley. We were
supposed to visit Mesa Verde National Park but apparantly part of it collapsed
a couple of weeks ago so we couldn’t go there. Instead we went rafting. The
first thing my sister said when she heard was ‘are you sure that’s a good idea,
seeing how clumsy you are?’ But it turned out the water level in the river was
very low so it was an easy route. We did get shipwrecked on the rocks a couple
of times in the beginning but after a while we figured it out and we weren’t
half bad at it. It was actually pretty cool and I’d love to do it again, maybe
on a river that’s a bit more challanging.
We
spent the night on the most beautiful campsite so far. It was surrounded by
mountains and the sunset was amazing. Yesterday evening we didn’t do anything
special, we just had a relaxed night at the campsite, playing games.
Yesterday’s drive took us from Santa Fe to Cortez so we crossed another state
line, from New Mexico to Colorado. Colorado apparently has some of the highest
mountains in the US. I’ve spent most of the drive gazing out the window, the
scenery was amazing! Every state we cross has me thinking I could live there
but this was the prettiest part of the trip so far.
Santa
Fe was really great as well. It’s the oldest town of the US and it was really
pretty, the people were nice and the food was great. In the morning, we spent
some time exploring the city and shopping for souvenirs. The nigth before we
had already gone into the city to eat and one of the other girls and I listened
to some music at a festival in a nearby park. Before coming to Santa Fe we
explored the caves of Carlsbad. We went to see the bats fly out at dusk, there
were hundreds of them, they just kept coming, it was a really cool thing to
see. The caves were amazing as well. It was 750 feet deep (don’t really know
how many metres that is?) and quite steep in some places. Thankfully we didn’t
have to climb back up as there was an elevator. The cave system was massive. I
think it took us about an hour to get down there and then almost another hour
to walk around the big underground ‘rooms’. It was really cool and very pretty
(as long as you don’t think about the amount of rock above you).
The
campsite in Carlsbad was next to a highway (again, just like the one in Austin
the day before) so I didn’t sleep much. But at least the restrooms were close.
Our way of judging a campsite is basically this: toilets need to be close.
We’ve had lots of different campsites, some on grassy fields, sometimes sand,
one was in a desert like place and scattered with rocks (really comfortable..),
next to highways, one was next to a train track, some had really big showers,
one had a toilet that was basically a hole in the ground, most had a pool but
last night’s one had the most amazing view. Althoug the one in Santa Fe was
also really cool because you could see so many stars, and even the milky way. 
I
think I’m almost to the point where I ended my last blog, when we were on our
way to Austin. It was really hot that day so we went tubing down a beautiful
river. It was very relaxing and a great way to cool down. After the tubing we
went into the city to explore a bit. We had bought spray paint so we went to
test our skills at an outdoor ‘gallery’ but it suddenly started raining so we
decided to grab some food and go back to the campsite. 
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