HERE COME THE PICTURES

Well we stayed at our first couch surf house. Nice. Jim, our host, was wonderful to us. We enjoyed spending the evening with him after he finished his projects for the day. He had lots of stories to tell, and, of course, we added some of our own.

After a lovely breakfast at "home", we went to the Petroglyph National Monument right outside of ALB. The picture below is of one of the panels we saw. We walked about 2 1/2 to 3 miles alongside around the bottom of a canyon wall. The wall was made of volcanic rocks. Lava. The ancients, the Spanish and the natives all decided it was a great place to leave signs of their being there.

Ooops, this is out of order. This is the volcano called Volcan. It is one of 5 in a row that is part of the National Monument. We walked up 2 of them. They are very extinct. So old, in fact, that not much is left of their volcanic-ness (new word). Pretty, tho.

This glyph really interested me. There are many glyphs of snakes. Some are snakes and some may be rivers or trails. But this one is definitely a snake... a rattlesnake for sure. You can see the rattles at the end of the tail.

We haven't been able to decide whether this is a lizard or a rat or a weasel. What do you think?

This a small portion of the hillside. If you look closely you can see small glyph.

This man, or whatever he is, is up to you to decide......;)

This one is hard to see. It is a man with his hands on his hips. I like it a lot.

We think this one may be the architectural drawings for a pueblo.

Pretty bird .

We drove to Riodoso. On the way we stopped for lunch in Corona. When we got to Ruidoso I played and won $200 on a slot machine. Wow.

Then today we had breakfast at the hotel and were served by the "waffle lady". She entertained everyone all thru the meal. Great fun. We drove to Roswell. Your know "Roswell" !!! UFO's Aliens...wow....It turns out the "crash" of the UFO happened near Corona (where we ate lunch)and was reported to the Sherrif in Roswell. We went thru the "museum" and enjoyed it. (pictures next post)

We drove on to Carlsbad Caverns. (sorry no pictures, hurried to get in before they closed and left the camera in the car) We took the self guided tour and got lots of info on the cave from a lady who was cleaning off years of mud deposited before they put in the paved walkways. She was great. We went to a "Chinese and Mexican restaurant" Strange combination. The food was awful.... but the owner, Joe, was so entertaining that it was worth it. He collects "treasures" from abandoned houses. He sat and talked about his treasure hunting. We really enjoyed meeting him.

So, now for some sleep. Tomorrow we are off to White Sands.