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... 15 and hooked up the camper and discovered that we have a little damage on our trailer from some object that we ran over.  We won't have to unhook from the truck tonight.  I will warm something up from the freezer.  We have our little freezer full of food and plenty of groceries along.  You would think that there isn't a grocery store between home and Alaska.

We are barely into Colorado and the weather has cooled down and the scenery is so very pretty. It's really just another travel day on the way to our final destination of Banff and Jasper with a short stop at Glacier National Park, the loveliest of the national parks we have visited.<br><br>This blog is mostly for family so others may find it a little boring!

... This one was called the "Devil's Rope Museum". It was a museum all about barbed wire. Now if your thinking, "Barbed Wire? What could there be to see?". A LOT! I've never seen so many examples of barbed wire.   There must have been thousands of examples of different ways to form this stuff. Not to mention several different sculptures made from barbed wire as well as the different machinery used ...

Took some roadside pictures and also visit the Capulin Volcanoe. We both hiked to bottom and back to earn our medallions for our sticks. He actually hike the over 1 mile all around the top of the cone!<br><br>After that we drove to Raton for some mexican food at El Matador, covered in green chili! Christopher said those were the best sopapillas he has ever had.

Made the mistake of not filling up when I turned onto a U.S. highway. Just to play it stay I stopped at the Gladstone Country Mercantile. I prepaid for my gas and she told me to pump it to 3.6 gallons. I've never measured out my gas on the honor system out of an above ground tank. There is a first time for everything!

For the romantic, the legend says that Tocum lost the battle for Cari's hand, at which point Cari killed herself. Her father the chief, distraught over this turn of events, also killed himself saying "Tocum-Cari, Tocum-Cari". It's probably some mundane thing like lookoutpoint, or buffalo hunt, but for the dreamer in us. Having left Ok City early this ...

... beans and corn were the home-spun meal Jose Luis was looking for, while the Chicken fajitas hit the spot for me. Interesting that this was another dry town, no wine, beer, just ice tea or sodas. We will be heading through Arizona tomorrow with our last stop before we arrive in Las Vegas

... closure was due to having had a bus load of tourists in before us. So we sat down and ordered a cuppa and coffee with some recommended famous "Ugly crust Pie". The choice of pie was wide and varied, the travellers chose, apple, peach and pumpkin pie, this included Ice-cream and whipped cream. (gee how naughty are the three travellers?) We tucked into our separate choices with much enjoyment, and the ambience of the time warp cafe was something to be absorbed and viewed. A lot ...

We had hoped to make it a bit further - however, the Yukon had a leaky tire that needed to get fixed and cost us about 2 hours dealing with that. It turned out to be a good thing! We missed a severe storm with hail and heavy winds near Tucumcari, NM - which was our original destination for the night!

We had planned on leaving Roswell early and picking up Ti in Albuquerque this morning, but just as we were packing up we received a call from Ti that he had missed his flight. This news interfered with my carefully laid out itinerary, but it actually improved our day. Instead of rushing to Albuquerque, we were able to take our time and watch Venus beat Serena at Wimbledon. Instead of spending half the day driving west to ...