Farmington, NM

Back to climb every mountain today. We crossed the Continental Divide, altitude 7380. Hours of mountains on a road that had absolutely nothing for miles on end. We did see a tumbling tumble weed, and no it wasn't in the trailer. LOL Nothing else exciting. Sara, I did see another prairie dog but they are so little that by the time you see them it is too late to stop and have them pose. Horses, cows and some brown fuzzy things I think were deer dotted the landscape. Took some pictures out of the window as we headed north. Again they just don't do justice to the reality. We are up over 5000 feet here at the camp ground so it should be good sleeping weather here at Mom & Pop RV Park. We'll be here for two nights.

New Mexico

What a difference a few hours made. We went from incredibly flat to mountains. The pictures don't begin to show the vastness of the fields and pastures. I finally found a post office, on Route 66 where we stopped for gas. I "zoned out" a bit yesterday as we passed acres of land with just scrub brush on it. I pictured a long ago time of Indians and buffalo. The history is just amazing to imagine when you see this vast openness.

We are in another time zone. Yesterday was a 25 hour day, we are now in Mountain time. Weather is 90ish but not as bad as you would think. We walked for over 3 miles outside today and it wasn't bad at all. Windy this evening but still nice.

Albuquerque, NM

Roadrunner

Rio Grande

Finally found RT 66. The campground is actually located on it! We went into the "Old Town" section today. Went to a Science Museum and of course watched a movie ;-) It was about the Colorado River and how much it has gone down in the last ten years. The museum was a lot about dinosaurs. Pretty interesting. Many artifacts of dinosaurs found in the area. From there we went to the Pueblo Indian Cultural Center. We just missed the dancing by 20 minutes or so, that was disappointing. The exhibits were neat. Not a large place but it is amazing how much Maine Indians have in common with the Indians here in the West. A couple of other events today. We crossed the Rio Grande and was able to see it today. All of the things we learned in school make such an impression when you actually see them. The other neat thing was a roadrunner actually ran across the road (how appropriate) while we were walking on the sidewalk. He ran right in front of us.

Albuquerque,New Mexico

Pics of Enchanted Trails RV Park, or the ''dust bowl' as Jo-Ann calls it, they have a 5 mph speed limit to keep the dust down and a motto of 'only you can prevent speed bumps.

Camper w/socks ?

We have a ? of why does the Camper in pic have 'socks' and if we have 'socks' on our camper ??

Well the wheeel covers are to protect the tires from harmful UV rays that causes tires to crack and age prematurely, if not used often. Case in point at the last rv park we were talking to a couple who had a 'blowout' that shredded the full size tire. It was a new tire 2 yrs ago but only used one trip and not covered and probably underinflated. If I had full size tires I would get covers, my tires are 13" trailer tires 6ply heavy duty, and can't find covers that small..

Canyon, TX

Texas Grand Canyon

Gobble Gobble

Route 66

Went to Palo Duro Canyon Park today. Just a preview to the Grand Canyon. It is known as the Grand Canyon of Texas. Got Owen to take a short hike, he worries about snakes so it was a big deal for him. No snakes all day, we did see a couple of turkeys. Spent most of the day there and then went to find Route 66. We found it and it was a bit disappointing. The write up sounded great but it was nothing like the description. No little shops, restaurants etc. We did have lunch at "Smokey Joe's". Very good food and reasonable. Glad we ate outside since smoking is allowed. Hard to get used to that. We were going to go to another museum, Panhandle Plains Historical Museum but everything seems to close at 5 around here and we only had a little less than an hour for the largest museum in Texas. Oh well. Still trying to find a post office. Have the worst time trying to find them. Hopefully tomorrow. We move on to New Mexico and get another 25 hour day, Mountain time zone, tomorrow.

Palo-Duro Rv park,Canyon,tx

Pics of the park, cold drizzle this morning, 64degrees in camper , Jo-Ann won't let me fire up the furnace, said back home this would be shorts weather..Oh Well. Thanks to Carl for looking up what the F.M. road signs mean. "Farm to Market" of course , we had the Farm part right, couldn't get the M. Later, O & Jo

Amarillo, TX

Wind mills and heading into a thunder storm.

Tepee picnic shelters in OK.

Well just south of Amarillo. Road leveled off today and there was miles/acres of farm land. Waves of amber grain but no deer and antelope, just cows and horses. When we crossed the border into Texas there was a sign to greet us--Welcome Center 100 miles! We then traveled onward through the miles of farm land. Our next exit book listed the largest cross and a grain silo for two of the exits. Other than that there was nothing. Many of the roads are listed as F.M. and then a number. Not sure what that means, does anybody know? This campground is quite nice. Just off interstate 27. Very flat and very windy. There have been a couple of tornado warnings posted but they are below us, that makes us very happy. We have taken pics of the campground Owen will probably post those in the morning.

A few more pics

Check out the couple next to us , the guy was playing with his bird and the lady was talking to her Cat. I thought I'd seen it all, What next , I expect to see a 'caged Rattler' now that we are in Texas, a place called Canyon, just south of Amarillo..

Oklahoma City, OK

Owen the weatherman.

We found Penobscot Indians!

Today was a "play" day. We went to the Science Museum. Played for 5 hours. Watched an IMAX movie-Wild Ocean. Always a favorite for us.

Went to the Cattlemans Steakhouse for dinner. Another place checked off the 1000 things to see book. We had cowboys seated next to us, spurs and all. The area is known as the Stockyard section of the city. If the wind was just right you could definitely tell that there was cattle nearby;-)

Tomorrow we are off to Texas. We'll see if we can find another mountain to climb and part of Route 66 to travel. We should have internet access tomorrow so will be able to post.

Oklahoma City, OK

Memorial pics. Elm tree survived the blast, it is 90 years old. Memorials left on the fence for about a full block. Arch ways with 9:01 and 9:03 on either end of the reflecting pool. Chairs set up to represent each floor of the building and has the names of those who died engraved on them. Small chairs represent children.