4/27: Santa Fe, NM, to Colorado Springs

​Angie has named our new truck "Ruby". She had called her last one "Saphire". Well, Ruby got broken into the working world by towing our 20-foot Lance trailer on the five-hour, up-and-down journey from Santa Fe to Colorado Springs. We descended from 7,700 feet to 4,700 before climbing back to 6,000. We averaged 11 mpg in our turbo-charged V4, travelling at 65 mph.
There was snow on the ground, but not on the road when we arrived at our campsite at the Air Force Academy. It was cold and overcast with a low ceiling. We couldn't see the mountains around us. We did our laundry and listened to our audio books. We just finished "Shogun" and are in the middle of "Diamond Eye", which is a well-written, fast-paced historical fiction about a female sniper in the Russian Army in WW2.