Waiting for Scott and Suzanne near
the Railyards Plaza we got into conversation with Mike who was fascinated by
our full time adventure and another half hour flew by.
We ate too
much and walked too little this week thanks to finding lots of new friends. But
we did find some nice places to eat.
We found
some nice parts of Santa Fe like Canyon Road which is a quaint area of adobe
buildings, art/craft stores and restaurants. El Farol Spanish restaurant was
our favorite and that’s where we had lunch with Ed and Joan.
Another neat
place about 30 or so miles south of town on Rt 14 is Madrid. For our European
readers this isn’t pronounced the way it is over there. If you ever saw the
movie Wild Hogs with Tim Allen you may have heard them pronounce it MAD-DRID.
And by no coincidence: this is the little town (More a village) where they
filmed part of the movie. Maggie’s diner is a real place, accept it’s not a
dinner but a souvenir store that sells ridiculously overpriced T shirts. Or at
least attempts to sell them. Everyone that went in while we were there came out
without buying anything.
Everyone also said “I thought it was a diner”. To me
the market would be for a diner, but maybe the owners know better? We liked
the Historic Mine Tavern best!
And after 6
days here it was time to move on, we have to be near Austin for October 9th
as we’ve decided to use up our last week of timeshare at a resort there, which
will give us time to clean out the rig, defrost the fridge and live in a
building for a week!
Passing thru
Southern New Mexico one place stands out and draws you like a moth to a flame:
Roswell.
I don’t know
what I expected of this place. In my mind was a little cowboy town with a dirt
street and aliens on the corner. So finding quite a large city with some
interesting history apart from UFO’s was a pleasant surprise.
We did go
and visit the UFO Museum however!!
The Roswell
Elks Lodge is neat, you should visit if you pass thru here. Excellent RV
facilities, and dinners Monday thru Saturday that are superb! They have their
own swimming pool too and a casino! We happily got some darts practice in, as
they have a room with 2 pool tables and 2 dart boards.
The Roswell
Elks recommended the Carlsbad Elks for a stop to see the Cavern and we gladly
followed their advice. Another great Lodge with it’s own casino. We arrived on
Karaoke night, which didn’t sound too attractive. It wasn’t bad at all. Most of
the performers were regulars apparently and did some good Country songs. We
aren’t Country fans but we like Willie Nelson and his songs featured
prominently so we were happy.
Carlsbad
Caverns are well worth a visit, we chose to ride the elevator both way and it
was still a 1 ½ hr walk around the main cave.
We had a “No
Plan” thing going lately. We don’t decide where we’re going to be the next day
until just before we go to bed. Makes things a surprise! We look for somewhere
within about 150 miles of where we are. Next stop?
Let’s look at the road
atlas.
Lubbock
Texas. Home of Buddy Holly, heck we can’t miss that LET’S GO.
First a tour
of the Texas Air Museum. We got there early and were the only people there. The
crew of volunteers came in and introduced themselves and we got a 1 on 1
personal tour of EVERYTHING. In and out of the planes, details of who donated
what, how they traded this for that. I was so fascinated I forgot to take any
pictures!
After that the Buddy Holly Center was a bit of a letdown. The
displays were virtually unreadable to our old eyes. Not much of a tribute to
such a huge and short lived talent.
For my
British readers the one weird exhibit was one of Buddy’s guitars. After his
performance on the London Palladium he gave the guitar to DES O’CONNER. You
Yanks won’t know what we’re talking about, but people of our age in UK will say
“Get out of here DES O’CONNER!” It’s a Brit thing. And no photography allowed in there either.
I checked how many miles we've traveled so far. My feeling was about 2500. WRONG we had 4005 miles when we left Roswell. We're having too much fun!!
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