Lenzen's Travels: A Great Week, and maybe Not so Great

It seems like a couple of days ago I was writing last week's blog. I guess as they say, time passes quickly when you are having fun. And this is when we start finding out what was left at home. For starters, no camera. Fortunately the cell phones now do have some pretty decent cameras.

We left our campsite Sunday morning and headed south. The weather has been great but it is time to move on. I love to see how so many of the overpasses have some sort of decorative display.

An then there are the interesting highways where it seems they started building at each end and, oh-oh, they don't quite meet up.

So after a couple of nice easy days, we stopped at Tucumcari, NM to see some of the many murals throughout town. There are quite a few murals depicting some of the history of Route 66. We did not want to unhook the Jeep so we found a side street to park on and did a walking tour.

We did see some interesting murals that have been painted throughout the town and when we got back to the motorhome, some fellow came running over and said "I have to ask you to leave". We looked at him (since we were heading out anyway) and asked why. He responded that we were not allowed to park there and the owner was planning to tow us away. Now, we were parked on a public street and granted, we did park in front of an apparent entrance to a visibly abandoned building. However, we did not get towed and simply left.

We carry on to Santa Rosa, which also supposedly had some Route 66 areas. We get there, Gerry reaches into his pocket and oops, no credit card. Since a wallet is rather uncomfortable when sitting and driving for extended periods of time, he takes it out and just sticks the credit card in his pocket. I guess it caught on the phone and is likely laying on a street somewhere in Tucumcari. And I'm sure that everyone knows how easy it is to call a bank and have the card replaced and then to have it couriered somewhere besides your home address. Finally got that done and the end of the story is that it did get couriered to a friend's place in Yuma so Gerry will see his new card soon.

So now it's off to see what there is in the town of Santa Rosa. We didn't find anything of interest pertaining to Route 66, but we did see the Blue Hole which is a small, deep pool and this one is used for training scuba diving.

Next, it's off to Alamogordo, NM where we found a great spot, the weather was perfect so we decided to just hang out there for a few days. The area is know for pistachios so we went off to do a tour.

Of course, the timing wasn't right but we did get to see some of the town. We also spent that time to wax most of the motorhome - just a wee bit left.

Now we are off to meet some folks at Empire Ranch, just south of Tucson. It's a historic, working ranch.

As luck would have it, this weekend is the cowboy festival. It's a two day event with quite a number of demonstrations, a music stage, cowboy story telling as well as quite a number of displays and vendors. Gerry and I went for the afternoon and an interesting day it was.