Today was visit museum day.
This was our first stop for the day. We spent 3 hours looking and reading things. They have a lot of Billy the Kid information and a lot of antiques, very interesting.
The classic Kid picture.
Not his original head stone put one that has been used for a long time. I has actually been stolen twice, thus the steel around it.
Part of the collection was a half dozen old vehicles, this is a 1950 pickup.
We visited Bosque Redondo Memorial at Old Fort Sumner. Here are a couple of pictures from the army barracks, they are a lot like Fort Stanton which we visited last fall.
Interesting day.
Campsite pictures, we are in site 5.
Here are some pictures of Eastern New Mexico’s fall bird, the wasp. The park ranger at Bottomless Lakes SP said they get a bunch of these every fall and we have had our share today.
These brass couplers will sure make getting water a lot easier. I’m sure I will enjoy them. Speaking of water, our drinking water is a lot better this year than what we had last fall. This year we are filtering the water through 3 filters before it gets to the holding tank and then once more at the kitchen faucet. The water in the bathroom sink is much much better than what we had last year. I am using a universal water filter right at the park water faucet, than a large 2 stage filter before it goes into the holding tank and than a universal filter at the drinking water tap at the kitchen sink. When we traveled down here for two weeks at a time we could get by with the bad taste for several days, however when we are here for 2 to 3 months at a time good tasting water becomes more important.
It is in one of the towns old and really cool homes, built in 1910 to 1912 it belonged to the White family until 1976 when it was given to the city. Most of the original photo collection has been moved to a new building next door. It does have some interesting bathroom sink fixtures.
Martha (our GPS) wanted me to turn down this dirt road that leads to Pecos just outside Roswell, NM.
Here’s a road view and you can see we looped around, drove into Roswell, turned right and followed the signs to the park.
Here is the aerial view of the same route.
This is the drive for today, I think it was 118 miles.
Guess who we saw today?
Think we’ll go north a ways and than head back west following the warm weather.
View Pictures:
Campground location Pictures:
Nice place with water and electricity at all the sights. Our current plan is to leave here Thursday the 15th and go north to Roswell.
Eight rows of covered parking with two rows of cars under each cover and it looks like thirty cars out from the store.
Richard and Vickie gave us an additional step for our MH. At least a third of the time the last step off the MH has more drop then the our steps.
Here is our new view.
While Jean was watching TV this afternoon a flash flood and quarter size hail warning came across the TV for the area we would have been driving through. It is not that it might hail quarter size hail it’s a warning not to be where it’s hailing.