From Cuba we headed out into our first section of flat, waterless, and harsh desert terrain in New Mexico. The good news is that we began to increase our daily miles. Our days of 20's were long gone. It is a whole new level of torture, to the body, when you walk over 30 miles in a day; our longest day was 34 miles! Walking on flat terrain also brought back the challenge of blisters. We were also playing catch up in this section due to the fact that we had taken an extra day off in Cuba. It took us 3 days, but we ended up catching up with the pack just before reaching the summit of Mt. Taylor. Mt Taylor, our highest summit in NM (11,301 feet), provided amazing panoramic views of the vast and varying terrain of New Mexico.l From the summit we walked straight down to the town of Grants, NM, located on historic Route 66.
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