Ha! moving through Texas and happen upon the WIN's again to observe the Solar Eclipse! How fun it was to share this significant event with friends on the road! Did I ever say how much I love this life!
Spending a week with WIN's both new and old friends to see the Eclipse and tour the area,,, I had a great time. Hiking a bald dome mountain, seeing miniature shrimp that live in puddles of water on top of the mountain. Touring the Pioneer Village with a German ancestry. Touring a museum dedicated to the WWII Pacific Theater, Admiral Nimitz hometown. Bicycle ride along a desert stream, walks in hot humid or dry windy area- every day in the Texas Hill Country is different in the the spring!
We had dinner together at the Tres Molinos Ranch too.
My Brother was SeaBees
Touring the Pioneer Village and learned how German Settlers created a colony in Texas!
German Tourist were touring when I was there
The advent of windmills to draw water was critical to developing the west.
These pictures are great to identify tools used back in the day
This is a Bee Honeycomb extractor
Hiking the Bald Dome
Tiny, very tiny shrimp live in these water pools
See the shale peeling off of the granite core?
Shrimp in the water pool
Solar Eclipse with the WINs is a party atmosphere, costumes, cast of characters and WIN Olympics!
Dinner together at Los Molinos
Leaving the WINs Solar Eclipse party, I returned to San Antonio Veterans Hospital because I had hyper extended my arm and heard a pop. Long story made short, it was a small torn muscle in the forearm, no surgery required.
Woohoo, back on the road again!
On the way and between Carlsbad City, NM and Pecos, TX is allot of new oil drilling and pumping. Huge area with small temporary cities for the workers. Unfortunately, I was not able to pull over for pictures .
It's been over 20 years since I have been to Carlsbad Caverns and it was like I had never been there before. Quite impressive. I didn't know that reservations are required, fortunately they have some first come first served tickets and I was allowed in .
Just outside El Paso, TX is the War Museum. A private collection of old airplanes and car's.
What is very interesting is I learned that women were pilots in WWII to ferry planes to Europe.
Cool roadrunner
I remember that 20 years ago driving the small road following the Rio Grande river in New Mexico, through farms with pecan trees and fields of peppers . It is spring now so fields are just planted, still very nice to drive slow through farm country in the desert
Mesilla, NM still has the cool town square to stroll around. Billy the Kid memorabilia still around.
Boondocking tonight, very nice and quiet.
Just south of Deming, NM is Pancho Villa State Park with a small museum about Poncho Villa raid in the US. General Pershing routed Panco Villa and spent 11 months chasing him inside Mexico. This is when the Calvary converted from horses to vehicles and planes. Get a load of that tank!
Just down the road 1/2 mile is a metal art collection by a private party. Cool
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