Pecos, Texas

Well, Friday, March 12, we finally left Phoenix and our wonderful friends from Alberta Canada. What a great family they are. Mike and Lynn, sons Brandon and Conner and daughter Sydney. They are on a two month tour of the US and will be volunteering their help to build a house in Mexico. When we left, we missed them like our own.

We headed east on I10 and stopped in Tuscon, AZ to visit two really neat museums. The first was the International Wildlife Museum, which featured stuffed animals from around the world in beautiful settings. The second was the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, which featured live animals indigenous to Arizona as well as acres of cactuses (cacti).

We spent the night in a crowded Flying J in Lordsburg, NM and had a decent nights sleep in spite of the nearby train.

We left Lordsburg early this morning and made our way to Carlsbad Caverns by 2:00pm. Of course that meant going across part of Texas and back into New Mexico for the caverns. The caverns were spectacular. (got to find another word....any ideas?) We took the self-guided tour through the 'Big Room', which is the largest limestone cavern in North America. It was over a mile long and took us about 1 1/2 hours to complete. We left there a little after 4:00 and headed back south into Texas and to the Flying J in Pecos, where we will spend the night.

I haven't commented much on the weather we've been enjoying, but it has been sunny and mild with temps in the 60's and low 70's during the day and 30's to upper 20's during the night since we left Flagstaff a week ago. Just about perfect.

QUIZ ALERT: There will be another quiz within the hour, so stay tuned.

Ron & Barb

QUIZ ALERT: G.O. (Grandkids Only) If you've been following the blog, what are the capitols of all the states we've been through since we left, including PA.