It has been way too long since I updated this blog! After Durango, CO we drove to Santa Fe, NM. It was a beautiful drive through high desert valleys and some really pretty valleys. Santa Fe is an artist community, listed only behind New York and San Francisco in number of Art Galleries! It isn't a really big town and the building codes say everything must be built according to a specific southwest architectural code. Lots of buildings are the pueblo style. It makes for a really neat community. While in Santa Fe, we also drove on the Turquoise Trail. It is quite a drive going all the way from Santa Fe to I-40 east of Albuquerque. There are lots of galleries along this
drive also and it is really pretty just east of the Sandia Mountains. After leaving Santa Fe we drove to Roswell, NM. That's where Howard went to school and where Loriann was born. The area had really changed since Howard was there, but we were able to go out to Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell campus where we got a really good tour of the department by the head of the department. She was so enthusiastic about the program and the students it was really cool to visit with her. We also went to the UFO Museum while we were in Roswell -- that was interesting! We learned lots of new things! From Roswell we drove to Carlsbad where we went through the
Caverns. That was REALLY cool. The big room took well over an hour to walk around (over 6000 square feet big!) After touring the big room, we stayed and watched the bats come out at dusk -- we watched for about 35 minutes as they swarmed out of the natural entrance to the cave. They were still coming by the droves with seemingly no end in sight, so we left! That was really something worth seeing!!!!!!!! From Carlsbad we drove to Alamogordo, NM so I could get my new military ID card. Mine expires this birthday so we drove to the White Sands Missile Range and got me legal. We toured the museum while there and learned a lot of the history of the Missile Range. Then on the way we went to the White Sands National Monument and drove through the park. Lots of white sand!!!! They actually plow it like snow where it has drifted across the roads. Pretty cool! We are now in Albuquerque for about a week. We were here two years ago and we really like the area.
It has been way too long since I updated this blog! After Durango, CO we drove to Santa Fe, NM. It was a beautiful drive through high desert valleys and some really pretty valleys. Santa Fe is an artist community, listed only behind New York and San Francisco in number of Art Galleries! It isn't a really big town and the building codes say everything must be built according to a specific southwest architectural code. Lots of buildings are the pueblo style. It makes for a really neat community. While in Santa Fe, we also drove on the Turquoise Trail. It is quite a drive going all the way from Santa Fe to I-40 east of Albuquerque. There are lots of galleries along this
drive also and it is really pretty just east of the Sandia Mountains. After leaving Santa Fe we drove to Roswell, NM. That's where Howard went to school and where Loriann was born. The area had really changed since Howard was there, but we were able to go out to Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell campus where we got a really good tour of the department by the head of the department. She was so enthusiastic about the program and the students it was really cool to visit with her. We also went to the UFO Museum while we were in Roswell -- that was interesting! We learned lots of new things! From Roswell we drove to Carlsbad where we went through the
Caverns. That was REALLY cool. The big room took well over an hour to walk around (over 6000 square feet big!) After touring the big room, we stayed and watched the bats come out at dusk -- we watched for about 35 minutes as they swarmed out of the natural entrance to the cave. They were still coming by the droves with seemingly no end in sight, so we left! That was really something worth seeing!!!!!!!! From Carlsbad we drove to Alamogordo, NM so I could get my new military ID card. Mine expires this birthday so we drove to the White Sands Missile Range and got me legal. We toured the museum while there and learned a lot of the history of the Missile Range. Then on the way we went to the White Sands National Monument and drove through the park. Lots of white sand!!!! They actually plow it like snow where it has drifted across the roads. Pretty cool! We are now in Albuquerque for about a week. We were here two years ago and we really like the area.
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I looks like so much fun!! I really need to go explore Colorado more it is so beautiful and not that far away from us. We miss you tons. THe kids ask all the time when they get to see you again!!
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