December 9--El Paso, Texas

Friday we visited the museum dedicated to UFOs and aliens in Roswell.

The entire town is alien oriented. Even the streetlights are aliens. The McDonald's is one of six or seven themed McDs in the states--the play area is shaped like a flying saucer.

Along the way, we collected more caches. The ones we found near Eastern New Mexico University campus were well camouflaged. This was one of our favorites. The limb in the center has the cache.

The limb has a hinged opening containing a pillbox with the cache log. Bob found this one by accident--I was ready to leave.

We enjoyed our stay at Bottomless Lakes State Park. Friday we walked around Lea Lake and a little up the cliff. This was the view. Our rv is the white dot toward the upper left of the lake.

This is a zoom shot.

We saw much wildlife in the area. Kestrels and red tail hawks fly over the fields constantly looking for food. We saw sand hill cranes in a field near Dexter. These are some pronghorns we saw in a field near the state park. Dead wildlife along the roads included a badger and so many skunks that we lost count. Saturday, December 8, was a travel day. We left Bottomless Lakes State Park near Roswell around 9:30 a.m. We arrived at Bobby and Cathy's around 2:30 after an adventure in the land of no gas stations!

Bobby had to drive 28 miles east of his house and bring us a couple of gallons so we could make it to his house.

We were able to fill up near his house. There were no gas stations from White's City, New Mexico until we got to El Paso. The station in White's City was charging $3.42 a gallon. The gas in El Paso was $2.88 a gallon. Hmmmmm.... what was the difference--130 miles with no gas between the two.

It was great to see Bobby, Cathy, Christopher, and DeAnna. We had not seen them since last spring. Christopher and DeAnna sure have grown. We will post pictures later.