Ernest Nitka Photography

Chama, New Mexico

The trip to Chama was interesting - the photos above are from there. The first pics are from our stay in a cow pasture near Suguache Colorado - the ranch is part of Harvest Host where business will offer up their unused land for campers willing to dry camp ( no electicity, water or sewer).  In exchange we the campers make a good faith effort to buy some of their product.  Here it was several pounds of ground beef.

Our next stop was Chama, NM which is just across the border from Colorado.  Before getting to Chama you go thru Antinito, CO;  near there is the oldest church in Colorado - Our Lady of Gaudalupe  Then finally we get to Las Mesitas cemetery and chapel.  The chapel caught fire years ago but only destroyed the wooden roof.  


















Sites on the way to Kansas

Easter Sunday finds me traveling for work to Kansas.  I frequently travel on Highway 36. which takes me thru Cope, Colorado.  This small village has seen better days but for things to photograph it can’t be beat.  

U.S. Route 36 (US 36) is an east–west United States highway that travels approximately 1,414 miles (2,276 km) from Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado to Uhrichsville, Ohio. The highway’s western terminus is at Deer Ridge Junction, an intersection in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, where it meets US 34. Its eastern terminus is at US 250 in Uhrichsville, Ohio








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