Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Bringing Home Scarlet

by Jerry Albertus

We took an airplane ride south to Tucson, and grabbed a room for the night near the airport.  The next morning we were picked up by Richard Delahanty, the internet salesman for Homes Tuttle Ford, and taken to their very nice dealership.  Even in this modern paperless world, buying a car involves lots of paperwork, but this was a very enjoyable transaction.

Scarlet says.. "Turn on the Heat!"
There were storms to the north so we go east to get on I-25 in New Mexico and head towards Colorado.  Somewhere south of Santa Fe we call it a day and the next morning (after worrying all night about Scarlet alone in a strange parking lot ) we head to Taos for some R&R.  Taos gets a snow storm (it is December after all) so we get a snow brush and 120 lbs. of sand for the trunk.  We wait a day for the weather to move out, brush off the snow and head north. Raton Pass is one nervous climb and Monument Hill is the last slippery spot to be navigated. Then we are safely home!