Satellite Inn Alamogordo

... stop police were on to us.... &#8220; Are you stopping for gas?&#8221;<br>the rather Chubby woman asked &#8220;no, just want to use your toilet&#8221;...<br>and so the bus was moved a matter of inches as we had not parked the<br>right way (petty). Then came the next problem: our shoes had<br>completely disappeared some where. So the only option to get to the<br>toilet with out getting Trucker pee feet was to find a pair of shoes<br>that fitted and run to the toilet....or in ...

Today, we went to White Sands National Monumment in Alamogordo, New Mexico. In the Visitor's Center, I met Ranger Mike. I became a Junior Ranger - again! I got a badge and a patch for being a Junior Ranger! We bought a sledding saucer and put wax on it. I tried it out, but didn't do it exactly right. I could have been faster down the dune. I only missed one question for ...

... all night by the traffic on the road and last night Gigs saw one of the neighbours being arrested on the way to breakfast!<br><br>PPS You may also notice that Gigs has had a hair cut! He decided it was cheaper to buy the clippers, that pay for the barbers each time, so this is Zoes effort at a haircut, not bad for a first attempt!

Surprise Mogollon Petroglyphs... I stumbled upon these in an area called Three Rivers in Eastern New Mexico. The red petroglyphs were in Gila National Park near the cliff dwellings.<br><br>More on my trip website

I'm back to civilization and have my blog caught up. As you can see, I didn't make it all the way to Roswell, so the aliens won't get me yet. I am staying here for awhile so I can go to White Sands Missile Museum, White Sands Monument, and other stuff I ...

And now, from overseas, the stunning conclusion to my short trip through America ending in Cloudcroft. I've done a really terrible job as usual of following through on the last few pieces of the trip. Although there's not too much more to this one.<br><br>I took a day trip to the VLA (Very Large Array) on my way to El Paso. This was actually a really cool ...

... terribly much to do in the area other than visit the desert. Going down the mountain and into the desert is rather inspiring, the views are really spectacular. And going into the desert the pavement ends, so as you well know, it was right up my alley. I decided to go on a hike in the desert on one of the trails. I was slightly discouraged when the park guide told me about the two Japanese people who during a hike on a windy afternoon, got lost and ...

... the Pershing ICBM, Patriot ABM, Fat Man bomb casing and the Loon (American version of the Nazi V1 buzz bomb). Also on display was a Redstone rocket, a similar rocket was used to launch Alan Sheppard into space. In an attempt of mis-information on display was the Aeroshell section of the Voyager Balloon System with a placard stating that this was what people mistaken identified as flying saucers in Roswell...I am not ...

... no shelter for miles. Lordsburg is an old railway town that has experienced more prosperous times. From here we turned east on interstate 10 and found even dryer, more desolate desert interspersed with range land anchored by prairie grasses. In one spot we noticed signage that indicated that the fire hazard was extreme and all of the dugouts were dry. We planned to spend the night in Las Cruses but arrived to find that there was no room at ...

... in the Sacramento Mountains on the way to White Sands. Arriving in the monument about 45 minutes before sunset was perfect. We walked on the dunes, played in the sand, and took beautiful pictures of sun setting over the Guadelupe Mountains behind puffy clouds that turned pink and orange as the sun fell behind the landscape. Again, the sites here left us totally speechless and we found ourselves saying "amazing," "unbelievable" and "incredible" over and over again. Got to camp ...