Rock Formations in Texas Canyon
Texas Canyon
As you can see we are pulling the trailer just in case you thought it was a trick on our part. The stop in Las Cruces was uneventful and the park was barely habitable. You could see that 10 years ago it was at its' peak and then was abandon, too bad.
We left Tuesday morning and drove to Roswell New Mexico. The drive was very difficult as it was mainly hour after hour of desert. You go through the Whitesands Missile range it is about 80 miles long and 50 mile across, at times it is hard to stay awake. We arrived in Roswell just after 2 pm and after a quick lunch and setup we headed for the UFO Museum.
Oooops my mistake it is the UFO Museum and Research Center. It sounds kind of corny but it was only $5.00 each to get in and they had lots of information about what happened in Roswell. You spend most of your time walking around reading material posted. It is quite well laid out and there was definitely something covered up there.
Kelly with his friends
On a Mexican Restaurant
Those pesky Aliens are Everywhere.
I thought Roswell was going to be this little town trying to make a go of it as a Mecca for Alien people not true. Roswell has a population of over 50,000 and has one of the top military academies in the USA. I'm sure the city council has had enough the the Alien thing.
We left Roswell Wednesday morning and headed for Texola Oklahoma. It was a long day for us but it was worth it. We drove through the pan handle of Texas with only a lunch stop on the way. After being on I-10 to start our trip at Amarillo we picked up I-40 and we will be on it till we reach Knoxville. The section of I-40 through Texas is part of the old "Route 66" so some of the signs are quite interesting. "Federal Penitentiary next exit" with under it "Don't Pick-up Hitchhikers". The welcome sign to a town we went through said " Home to 17,000 Happy People.......and 4 or 5 Grouches". You go through Hereford which claims to be the beef capitol of North America.
One of Seven pens this size near Hereford.
Massive cross on the side of the road.
The story goes that several towns along old route 66 tried different things to get people to stop there. We saw a massive cross, the "Leaning Water Tower" and several places on the highway with "The Largest" whatever. They didn't work on us as we made it to Texola, which is 1 mile into Oklahoma, in time for dinner.
We left Texola the next morning and drove to Checotah Oklahoma with the plan to stay there for two nights. The park has great WiFi so we have had several good Skype calls with Kelly's dad and with Linden( oh yeah his parents were there too). Kelly has been able to update the Blog and June has caught up with her e-mails and Facebook. Kelly went into town today for a hair cut and found out that Checotah is the hometown of Carrie Underwood, and has had more national champion steer wrestlers then any other town. I guess all towns like to have a "claim to fame".
Well we are off to Little Rock Arkansas tomorrow, I wonder if Monica's dress is on display at the Bill Clinton Presidential Library??????????
Take Care JunKel
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