Ruidoso, NM

These 3 pix are of Lake Dardanelle S P, OK.  Great setting and view but too damned hot and humid to enjoy it.  Cower inside the EDGE with A/C on max.

We’re back in the high dry country and it feels great!  We'll take a break of 5-7 days after many hot sticky days on the road through PA, VA, WV, TN, AR, OK, and TX.  We didn’t spend more than one night in any one place since we left Gettysburg, never unhooked, never went out for dinner.  So, going out tonight!

Dozens of discarded spray paint cans litter the area.

Staged shot.  I picked up an empty can of paint.

Above pix are of Cadillac Ranch near Amarillo.  I thought it was an old whorehouse-museum when we saw it on the map - like Chicken Ranch in the movie.  But no, it’s 10 Cadillacs planted nose down in a field back in the early 70s.  I’d seen pix of it, don’t recall when or where.  They’re hardly recognizable as Caddies anymore, having long since become a venue for spray-paint messages and bizarre art.  Still, it gets lots of visitors - including us.

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Trish wanted to drive through Roswell to see the many alien-themed signs and such.  She took several pix; I didn’t take any cuz I was driving, didn’t think they’d be blog-worthy in any case.  Your garden variety Roswell alien sign has them looking like the aliens in Close Encounters: green, hairless, delicate, large slanted oval eyes.
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We picked Ruidoso cuz of its high altitude.  We weren’t aware that there’s a major horse racing track here, Ruidoso Downs, and also a large winter ski area.  It’s an odd mix of chic and hoity-toity alternating with poor and shabby, with not much in the middle.