Don & Sandi at "home", back in the Stockton area.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Roswell, New Mexico

Hi.

We visited Roswell, New Mexico for a few hours on Friday.  As you may know, an infamous "UFO" allegedly crash landed in Roswell in July, 1947.   The craft is also alleged to have had three or four aliens in the craft; all secretly recovered by government officials.   The locals were told to "keep quiet".

After our visit to Roswell, we have this official statement to make, "Everything seems normal to us.   We saw absolutely nothing out of the ordinary.   Just another day in our 100-Day Trip.  Really."

That's our story and we are sticking to it.

Take care (help!)
Don & Sandi

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Alamo & Caverns

Hi.

Over the past few days, we have seen a lot of Texas.  Umm...is it safe to say, we have seen all of Texas that we care to see ;-) ???   Boy, it's a big state to drive through!

While in Texas we went to San Antonio (and watched on TV as the Giants won the World Series...yahoo!).   We walked the "river walk" alongside the narrow San Antonio River that runs through downtown.  It was beautiful with its shops and side-walk restaurants, and music...and tour boats moving down the river.  (Yes, we took the tour-boat ride too.)  We loved that area.

We also visited the nearby "Alamo".  It was very interesting to learn in a fair amount of detail the history of the Texas "republic" and its fight for independence.  It was a fierce battle.   The Alamo is treated as a shrine once you enter its main chapel area.

San Antonio was the site of the 1968 World's Fair, and so we had to visit the "Tower of the Americas" while we were there.  We took the ride to the top of the tower; the view of the San Antonio area was magnificent.

We arrived in New Mexico on Wednesday.  We visited the Carlsbad Caverns for several hours on Thursday and really enjoyed the beautiful scenery of stalactites and stalagmites, 750 feet below ground level, at a very cool 56 degrees.

Well, that's all the news for today...in less than three weeks we will be home!

Take care,
Don & Sandi

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