Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Roswell - Feb 11-15
It's us again, those crazy Coloradans with the four cats. Seriously, the cats seem to love it most of the time. The exception is when we are driving, but that isn't for much of the time. We spend a couple of days in Roswell, NM, and that was plenty of time to see what we needed to see. Our campground was quite nice with long pull-thru spaces. We could have probably been happy just relaxing there another couple of days without seeing any sights.
The first day we went to a zoo, which was a big mistake. We should know better than to go to a small-town zoo. This one just had captive animals of the types we had been seeing at the Wildlife Refuges during the previous days. Then, since the zoo was so small and unrewarding, we went on out to the Bitter Lakes Wildlife Refuge a little north of town. It was small, and we had forgotten our binoculars, but it was still quite interesting. We came across a Ranger with a spotting scope and were able to get a good look at some Ross' Geese, sort of a rarity. We then went back into town and visited the UFO Museum. The UFO story is interesting, but it got fairly repetitive. We bought & sent out the requisite souvenirs, bypassing the Alien Autopsy Game (motto "One wrong move and the scream will send you running") for our Mensa games night group.
The second day we went to Bottomless Lakes State Park and walked around looking at all the interesting "Blue Hole" type lakes. We spent the morning there and had a picnic lunch before leaving. In the afternoon we went to the Roswell Museum, which had art as well as a large Goddard museum. Both were interesting.
We arrived at our first Escapee park in Pecos, TX, on Valentine's Day, just in time for the Valentine's Day Dessert Pot Luck. Doug made one of his fabulous desserts. It was lots of fun to be with people that made us feel like family instantly. Pecos is a very small town with a really large Western feel to it. It sort of makes you want to say "Pardner" & "Yup". It makes lyrics of old western songs run through your mind. It's quite warm -- low 80's and we are just being lazy.
The first day we went to a zoo, which was a big mistake. We should know better than to go to a small-town zoo. This one just had captive animals of the types we had been seeing at the Wildlife Refuges during the previous days. Then, since the zoo was so small and unrewarding, we went on out to the Bitter Lakes Wildlife Refuge a little north of town. It was small, and we had forgotten our binoculars, but it was still quite interesting. We came across a Ranger with a spotting scope and were able to get a good look at some Ross' Geese, sort of a rarity. We then went back into town and visited the UFO Museum. The UFO story is interesting, but it got fairly repetitive. We bought & sent out the requisite souvenirs, bypassing the Alien Autopsy Game (motto "One wrong move and the scream will send you running") for our Mensa games night group.
The second day we went to Bottomless Lakes State Park and walked around looking at all the interesting "Blue Hole" type lakes. We spent the morning there and had a picnic lunch before leaving. In the afternoon we went to the Roswell Museum, which had art as well as a large Goddard museum. Both were interesting.
We arrived at our first Escapee park in Pecos, TX, on Valentine's Day, just in time for the Valentine's Day Dessert Pot Luck. Doug made one of his fabulous desserts. It was lots of fun to be with people that made us feel like family instantly. Pecos is a very small town with a really large Western feel to it. It sort of makes you want to say "Pardner" & "Yup". It makes lyrics of old western songs run through your mind. It's quite warm -- low 80's and we are just being lazy.
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 9:54 PM 
