Day 24 of our 2018 Jumbo Road Trip.
Albuquerque, NM to Amarillo, TX. 4 for 5 in geocaching. A couple of them had no container required, just a photo or a question answered and the two small containers we had no difficulty with, but the one regular sized one, we just couldn’t find. 🙁
We did a few other stops today besides the geocaching and eating or rest breaks, first up was the Bosque Redondo Memorial in Fort Sumner, NM. The Bosque Redondo spot was very interesting. Do yourself a favor and click the link and at least read the main page. Neither Donna nor I knew nothing about the history this place represents until we stumbled on the little red square on the New Mexico state map that was right along our route. A little humbling when you are confronted with something of this sort. Reminded us of our visit a couple years ago of Manzanar Camp.
Secondly, by some sort of weird quirk, also in Fort Sumner, is the grave of Billy the Kid. We stopped outside the cemetery to take a quick photo, but didn’t bother to go in. What is even quirkier for us is, with absolute no pre-planning we have now happened to pass thru two of the three towns that claim to be the burial site of Henry McCarty, AKA Billy the Kid. On the way west we stopped in the small town of Hico, TX for a leg stretch and there was a small museum dedicated to The Kid who they believed wasn’t killed by Pat Garret in NM, but lived out a quiet life there and died in 1950. And had we known we were going thru two, we could have adjusted our route in Arizona, adding a mere 100 extra miles, and hit the third in Prescott, AZ. Billy the Kid Wikipedia Page.
The third stop is obvious from the photos above and below, Cadillac Ranch (it is a mere 3-1/2 miles from tonight’s hotel.) I have now been to both of the Big Two of car related Roadside America having visited Carhenge back in 2009
On the way back to the hotel in Albuquerque after breakfast the Lady Bug crossed the 25,000 mile mark.
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- Lady Bug Goes Ranching
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- Colorful Caddys
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- Crooked Crashed Cadillacs
