My wife and I and our son, daughter-in-law, and two grandson's just got back from a 12-day road trip to New Mexico to visit family, enjoy the mountain air, and did Sea World in San Antonio on the way. Here's a few pics:
Crystal and I made an overnight at Tishimingo State Park in Mississippi on the way. It was really pretty. A lot of the roads, structures, and an old swinging bridge were built by the CCC during the depression era. We did some hiking while there but it was brutally hot.
On to New Mexico via some long, long Texas roads. We mostly avoid the interstates and drive the secondary roads. Often they are four-laned, 18-wheeler traffic is way less, scenery is way better. Much less pressured and more pleasant way to travel in our way of thinking.
Our travel rig: 2004 F-250 Powerstroke diesel and 21' Salem travel trailer.
The grandsons and a "resident alien" they met in Roswell, NM. Roswell has really made a commercial success out of all the extraterrestrial hoopla.
Here they are standing in front of a Nike missle on the slope of the Organ Mountains just above White Sands Proving Grounds.
Yours truly and wife near the same place, Organ Mountains looking toward El Paso in the background.
A few pics from White Sands, New Mexico. My wife is from Alamogordo, just a few miles from here and "birthplace of the atomic age." Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was tested, is about forty miles north of here straight up the Tularosa Basin at Oscuro.
Most of the time we stayed in the mountains at Alto, near Ruidoso. Very pleasant. The boys got familiar with the resident mule deer family in the little RV park where we stayed. My BIL and SIL have charge of the park, and they, myself and wife, and son and family were the only ones there. It was marvelous.
The boys had an outdoor theatre one night, watching a movie on the laptop in the cool of the evening.
A pretty pair: wife Crystal and her little sis Charis.
We had a great trip, got to visit a lot of family and friends. My wife got to see cousins she hadn't seen in years and their kids and grandkids. Ate some great food and brought home 25 lbs of green chile, unobtainable in Alabama, and our only souvenir other than the memories. Thanks for looking.
Crystal and I made an overnight at Tishimingo State Park in Mississippi on the way. It was really pretty. A lot of the roads, structures, and an old swinging bridge were built by the CCC during the depression era. We did some hiking while there but it was brutally hot.
On to New Mexico via some long, long Texas roads. We mostly avoid the interstates and drive the secondary roads. Often they are four-laned, 18-wheeler traffic is way less, scenery is way better. Much less pressured and more pleasant way to travel in our way of thinking.
Our travel rig: 2004 F-250 Powerstroke diesel and 21' Salem travel trailer.
The grandsons and a "resident alien" they met in Roswell, NM. Roswell has really made a commercial success out of all the extraterrestrial hoopla.
Here they are standing in front of a Nike missle on the slope of the Organ Mountains just above White Sands Proving Grounds.
Yours truly and wife near the same place, Organ Mountains looking toward El Paso in the background.
A few pics from White Sands, New Mexico. My wife is from Alamogordo, just a few miles from here and "birthplace of the atomic age." Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was tested, is about forty miles north of here straight up the Tularosa Basin at Oscuro.
Most of the time we stayed in the mountains at Alto, near Ruidoso. Very pleasant. The boys got familiar with the resident mule deer family in the little RV park where we stayed. My BIL and SIL have charge of the park, and they, myself and wife, and son and family were the only ones there. It was marvelous.
The boys had an outdoor theatre one night, watching a movie on the laptop in the cool of the evening.
A pretty pair: wife Crystal and her little sis Charis.
We had a great trip, got to visit a lot of family and friends. My wife got to see cousins she hadn't seen in years and their kids and grandkids. Ate some great food and brought home 25 lbs of green chile, unobtainable in Alabama, and our only souvenir other than the memories. Thanks for looking.
