Friday, August 27, 2010

HEADING NORTH TO NEW MEXICO 8/2010




























The first picture shown is West Texas landscape taken on the way to New Mexico. Second picture was obviously taken as we crossed the border from Texas. The third picture is of the landscape in New Mexico after crossing the border. We spent two nights at the KOA in Carlsbad, the next picture was taken at the entrance to their office, store, community area. This KOA is definitely the nicest KOA we have ever stayed in. The sites are very large, lots of amenities offered for the KOA nightly price. It was our second time at this RV park. While there we made a trip to the Sitting Bull Falls. We drove down into a canyon in the Lincoln National Forest to get to the entrance of the falls. They have several nice picnic areas, and very clean restrooms also available at the park. It was a short walk to the Sitting Bull Falls. The last picture was taken while "driving through" Artesia NM. We had seen it on our previous trips on NM 285. The bronze sculpture is the 1st of 3 in a series titled "Cattle Drive." It is titled Trail Boss by Vic Payne. After researching it on the internet, we discovered there are two more sculptures in Artesia, The Vaquero, and The Rustler. Maybe we will get to look for them the next time we drive through Artesia.










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