Ramada De Las Cruces

We stayed at Bonnie and Sal's on Saturday and Sunday night. We had a great time, and hope that they will come to Michigan this summer. Bonnie is still the same, we laughed a lot. Salvador is a lot of fun, we drank beer and talked a bunch. They have such a nice house, Salvador has done a lot of work on it.<br>

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More miles today, 309.<br><br>First stop today was Roswell. Stopped by the Visitor Center and a couple of Alien visitors tried to take me away. But I escaped and went next door to the Roswell Museum and Art Center. They have recreated Dr. Robert Goddard's early laboratory. You know him don't you? The father of rockets. But the main reason I went there was to see their Georgia O'Keeffe ...

Journée chaude et occupée. <br> <br>Première visite à Three Rivers Petroglyph Site.  Selon l'information qu'on nous donne, il y aurait plus de 25000 pétroglyphes à cet endroit.  Difficile à croire, mais enfin.  On marche un peu dans le parc et on prend quelques photos. C'est intéressant, mais seulement si on passe dans le coin.  Je ne ferais pas un grand détour pour y aller, mais ça dépend ...

Today I got my passport at the post office,it took us an hour to sign everything,the lady said in two weeks it would come but I got lucky and got it a week earlier,so mom worked another week then we started are trip first we went to Tuscon then California and then up to the mountains,any way it was fun but not fun getting pushed in with all the luggage next to me and almost hitting me in the head (we were going to Canada but we didn't have time). 

... away fat and happy. Upon further exploration of the area, we discovered the ONLY solar observatory in the western hemisphere. It was in the national forest at 9000'. Last but not least, we went to White Sands monument. The sand is gypsum crystals and not ground up rock/sand. It was warm and reflected the sunlight beautifully! Make sure to check out the video. When we walked on it, it looked so much like melting snow...amazing!

... roadkill, eewww. One of the most interesting things that we saw was the huge windmill farms that generate power. There were tons of them and at one of the rest stops we ventured into they had a information sheet saying that they were anywhere from 80 feet to 260 feet tall!!! They were huge! We took a "detour" and instead of taking 10 all the way to El Paso, our trusty Garmin GPS took us up through Pecos and around El Paso. It was a little nervous at first being on a stretch ...

We crossed the border into New Mexico and checked in at Sunny Acres RV Park. They were very friendly and had a wealth of knowledge, imparting an abundance of information which included maps and pamphlets! Las Cruces (the crosses) began as a little forest of crosses marking the graves of members of a caravan ambushed by Mescalero Apaches on El Camino Real at the foot of the Organ Mountains. Also known as the Crossroads of the Southwest, it is ...

... us last night at Cliff Dwellings National Park. We had a couple real rustic camping nights in National Parks which have no showers (personally I loved it.) So did you guess the 2nd largest city in New Mexico? Well I'm not going to tell you. I think you should look it up. Who knows, you may need to know it one day and you're more likely to remember it if you make an effort rather than me telling you. SO venture on. Time for ...

We woke up to ice on the windshield this morning and opted to stay a second day at the La Quinta in Las Cruces and take care of some frustrating business with my former employer. It seems that when I quit, nobody got around to telling the payroll department about my departure so they kept on paying me for a month and now, two months later, someone figured it out and wants their money back. Some days, you've got to wonder how corporate ...