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
Don & Sandi at "home", back in the Stockton area.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
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
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
Saturday, October 30, 2010
New Orleans
Hi.
We have spent the last couple of days in New Orleans and we have really enjoyed visiting the "Big Easy"...a very entertaining and "alive" kind of place!
We took a "bayou" boat trip on Friday and saw at least 15 alligators. As you will notice in one of the photos, Sandi found a new friend in the 1-year-old alligator that we got to "meet" while on the bayou boat trip.
We ate well (loved the shrimp) during our visit. The architecture is beautiful, as was the St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter. You will notice in the photo above that we are in fact wearing our "Mardi Gras" beads, with a Giants logo. (Please note: we paid money for the beads ;-) Go Giants!
We took a walking tour around the French Quarter and found lots of interesting shops, street entertainers, and "interesting" people walking about...even more so than in San Francisco.
We also drove into the Lower Ninth Ward district of New Orleans; the area that received the most damage in Hurricane Katrina. It was good to see the new homes that have been built and that are currently being built. However, it was very sobering to see block-after-block of empty lots, weeds 6-feet tall, and concrete foundations in the middle of nothing. This neighborhood was destroyed...but their posted motto is, "Remember our past...celebrate our future". God bless them!
Final note: For those of you who happen to watch the HGTV show, "Holmes on Homes", you may recall the series of episodes where he and his crew rebuilt a home in the 9th Ward. In that series, there was a woman sitting in her rocking chair on her porch watching the whole rebuilding process happening next door to her home. She was interviewed several times and always had a cheery word and a positive attitude. She could always be seen "rock'n on her porch". So, guess who we saw as we drove by the houses on that street? Yup, there she was, just rock'n away.
Off to Texas tomorrow.
Take care.
Don & Sandi
We have spent the last couple of days in New Orleans and we have really enjoyed visiting the "Big Easy"...a very entertaining and "alive" kind of place!
We took a "bayou" boat trip on Friday and saw at least 15 alligators. As you will notice in one of the photos, Sandi found a new friend in the 1-year-old alligator that we got to "meet" while on the bayou boat trip.
We ate well (loved the shrimp) during our visit. The architecture is beautiful, as was the St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter. You will notice in the photo above that we are in fact wearing our "Mardi Gras" beads, with a Giants logo. (Please note: we paid money for the beads ;-) Go Giants!
We took a walking tour around the French Quarter and found lots of interesting shops, street entertainers, and "interesting" people walking about...even more so than in San Francisco.
We also drove into the Lower Ninth Ward district of New Orleans; the area that received the most damage in Hurricane Katrina. It was good to see the new homes that have been built and that are currently being built. However, it was very sobering to see block-after-block of empty lots, weeds 6-feet tall, and concrete foundations in the middle of nothing. This neighborhood was destroyed...but their posted motto is, "Remember our past...celebrate our future". God bless them!
Final note: For those of you who happen to watch the HGTV show, "Holmes on Homes", you may recall the series of episodes where he and his crew rebuilt a home in the 9th Ward. In that series, there was a woman sitting in her rocking chair on her porch watching the whole rebuilding process happening next door to her home. She was interviewed several times and always had a cheery word and a positive attitude. She could always be seen "rock'n on her porch". So, guess who we saw as we drove by the houses on that street? Yup, there she was, just rock'n away.
Off to Texas tomorrow.
Take care.
Don & Sandi
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