Next stop after Gila will be the Petrified Forest in Arizona. Putting on the mileage now... woohoo.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Day 54 - 5709 miles
We are now in Silver City, NM. Our goal is to visit Gila Cliff Dwellings tomorrow. We had to cross two mountain ranges to get here. Some of you will be happy to know that we saw snow today. We crossed through Cloudcroft, NM and there was snow on the ground. Elevation was over 8,000 feet... 2,000 feet higher than Mt Washington. Also crossed the mighty Rio Grande River. It's just as muddy as I remembered it. I think it should be called the muddy Rio Grande River. Also saw White Sands Missle Range. There was a picnic area that had an old NIKE Hercules Missle as part of the picnic table decor... all 25 feet of it. One place in NM we had to pull over for an illegal alien check... thus the border patrol photo.
Next stop after Gila will be the Petrified Forest in Arizona. Putting on the mileage now... woohoo.
Next stop after Gila will be the Petrified Forest in Arizona. Putting on the mileage now... woohoo.
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Glad to hear you haven't been picked up by the border patrol yet - make sure you check the trunk after rest stops :) Great pictures, too! Looks like you are having a good time. Impatiently waiting for you to head back towards the mid-west. . .
I like the "dust storms may exist" sign - so may sasquatch, the boogeyman and extraterrestrials. Watch out for them, since they don't have road signs posted.
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