Not Catching Up

LOL I know I am way behind with my daily blogging, but I'm not going to try to catch up now. I will tell you what we've been doing, but photos will have to wait till another time.

We left our heroes in Roswell, NM at the Town & Country RV Park. What a nice place that was! Very neat and clean, and just what we needed. After I was finished with posting those bajillion photos, we collapsed, exhausted, into bed.

Monday we sort of took the day off. Well, almost. We did laundry and then headed downtown, to see the Roswell UFO Museum. They have this museum set up chronologically, and it's all geared toward convincing us that the "Roswell incident" actually did involve a spaceship and alien beings. Me? I'm not easy to convince. ;)

After that, we left the RV behind the museum and walked a mile north on Main Street to a fine Italian restaurant, where we shared a sandwich. The walk back was quite warm, but we were well-fed!

A maintenance stop at Wal*Mart, and we went back to hook up at Town & Country for another night.

Tuesday morning, we stopped at Fatman's Beef Jerky. Yep, you read that right! There, in Roswell, is a beef jerky FACTORY! This man used to be in the meat business, growing cattle and producing beef. Now he and his wife produce fabulous jerky!

Jack and I went in expecting just to buy some, but Rick gave us a tour, showing us the whole place. We went from the vacuum room to the oven room, and then into the freezer, to see the meat as he gets it (from a producer friend of his!) The whole experience was jaw-dropping. The place was spotlessly clean, and I've never had better jerky! And yes, we did buy a bunch!

We left Fatman's and drove toward Carlsbad Caverns. We stayed at the Whites City RV Park, which.. has seen better days. At least the electrical service was good, the sites were fairly level, and ... well, that's about all that was good. LOL!

We secured our site and then high-tailed it up the hill to the Carlsbad Caverns. We made it there just exactly at 2pm, and, wouldn't you know, the last entrance to the cave via the Natural Entrance was at 2pm!

What a fabulous time we had in the cave! The walk was easy and fun, and we each took lots of photos. Of course, with the very low light, we will have to review our photos to see how many will be worth showing to *you*!

After we came back out of the cave, we drove back down the hill to our camp. There was a restaurant across the street, and we opted to visit it. Other than being turtliciously slow, (amazingly, my computer thinks that "turtlicious" is a word!) the food was good, and we both enjoyed the people working there.

While we were parked there, I finished up the project of making window coverings for our front windows. They're slick and work pretty well, attaching to the window frames with industrial velcro, though their insulative qualities are not as good as the ones that I'd bought for the 2007 Navion. That is because I bought cheap car window insulators from which to fashion them. Oh well.. I can upgrade these if I want. I have nearly no money in these.

Today's drive took us to Guadalupe Mountains National Park, which we essentially drove past, though we did take a short nature trail there, and went to the Visitor's Center.

We arrived at Fort Davis Historical Site at 4:15 (since we'd lost an hour), and they closed at 5:00. At least Jack's National Park Pass gets us in free, so we took advantage of the 45 minutes we had!

On down the road a little, we stopped at the Lost Alaskan RV Park, and that's where I am now! We walked to town about a mile and a half, and had dinner at a barbecue steak place, and it was great!