Wednesday, June 25, 2008

MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK - CORTEZ, CO


This lovely lady we found weaving one of her rugs at the gift shop inside the park. It was her 80th birthday, she was so cute, her rugs sold for up to $800. Sure wish we could have afforded to buy one.

This is John, our ranger who gave us the tour of "The Cliffs". He is a retired science teacher and we really enjoyed his presentation.

This tour took about an hour, we got to walk up to all of the kivas and see how these people lived hundreds of years ago, Really amazing.

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO OLD TOWN




Old Town was nice, we had a good Mexican lunch and wandered thru all of the stores. The church was built back in 1700 and is a very active Catholic parish. Very pretty. The gardens outside the church were maintained beautifully so much so that even the parish cat loved getting it's "cat nap".

Saturday, June 21, 2008

THE ADOBE DELI





The Adobe Deli is just a really amazing restaurant, located literally in the middle of nowhere. The building that the restaurant occupies is really fun, it had so many things to look at, signs to read and a full wall that has nothing but a television screen on it. We had an awesome dinner, Jim, Joni and I feasted on ribs brought out right on the racks they were cooked on and Karl had a strip steak that was incredible. They were worried that it was not cooked exactly the way Karl would have liked it, maybe a little too well done, so they brought him out a 2nd steak, really thick and bbq'd to perfection. They packaged the first steak for him to take home and that was after he ate half of it, he then shared some of the 2nd steak with the rest of us. It was oh, so good. Where are we??? We are in Deming, NM visiting Jim's cousin, Joni and husband, Karl. The country around here is like being in the middle of the desert, lots and lots of sand , very, very hot and alot of wind. We will take off again in the morning, today we did laundry and Jim went to the hardware store and bought that insulating silver looking window stuff, not sure what it's called anyway we cut them to fit the windows to help keep the heat outside.
We are now going to head north. We will go to four corners which is NM, UT, CO and AZ. We want to visit the Aztec Ruins, Mesa Verde National Park, and maybe go to the Navajo State Park. This is all country that we have always wanted to visit but never have, so now that we have the chance to do it we are. Very exciting. More later.

JOHNSON CREEK RV RESORT - INGRAM, TX




This so far has benn our second favorite rv park. They took a pecan farm and transformed it into this great park. Some people live there full-time and then there are those who come just for the winter. It's lovely. Huge pecan trees and in between each row they put in the rv sites with cement and in between there is lawn. Out back is a great river full of fish and deep swimming holes. Jim and I walked down to it and took a swim, this was after we swam in the pool above. The owners took the main house and transformed it into a game room, pool tables and the sort, a great kitchen with several tables, antiques, for guests, an exercise room, library and all the good things a good rv resort have. We enjoyed.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008



The New Orleans RV Park was really cool. It is brand new, the owner is a retired yacht captain and he is developing this piece of property into a 5 star rv resort, he is also adding condos and a restuarnt. This is all along a waterway. Across the water is a marina that stores boats undercover and when the owners want to use their craft they just call and by the time they get there, their boat is in the water, all fueled and ready to go. On the same waterway is a yacht builder named Trinity. We watched a pair of dolphins feeding right out our front window, it was great. (It's really hard to see but they are there. It's that little blip int he water by the large boat.)

We were shuttled to the French Quarter and we had a great dinner at Landry's Seafood Restuarant, this is a pic of the front of it. We walked down Bourbon Street and heard some really great music by just walking the street.

KITE FLYING



Lily and her best bud, Max, took time out of their very busy day to fly a kite. They also got rides in a canoe and spent all day Saturday at the state park beach area. They had a blast.

MORE LONG POINT CAMPING




Just a couple more pics of Lily catching fish. It was really fun and great to know that there are still fish to catch.