I'm sitting here safely and comfortably at our Comfort Suites in Las Cruces, NM, near the U of NM campus with one kid finally asleep and the other reading. We got a slightly later start than anticipated, but still were on the road by around 9:30 am. We hoped to refuel in Tucson and head to Las Cruces in time to see the "free" Natural History Museum there, but the Costco in Tucson was farther than I thought and we lost an hour due to that and roadwork. Big surprise, huh? Then we lost another hour as soon as we got to NM since AZ doesn't participate in Daylight Savings Time. The museum was closed.
It turned out alright anyway. Since we realized we wouldn't make the museum, we decided to stop anywhere we wanted. Our Tucson detour took us right through the aircraft boneyard at Davis Monthan AFB. We visited "The Thing" near Dragoon, AZ. Saw it on Roadsideamerica.com and figured, since it only cost $2.50 for all 3 of us to see it, we'd try it. No spoilers here. I'll never tell in my blog, but if you ask me (or the kids) in person, we'll spill the beans. Also saw some great rock formations in the Texas Canyon (Dragoon again). Then it was flat. Not quite pancake flat, but pretty darn flat.
Check out today's photos.
We're off to White Sands tomorrow. Ted forgot his sneakers (well not forgot; packed them then took them out to play ball and forgot to RE pack them) and only has flip flops, so we'll see how much walking we can do, but at least it will be amazing looking. We'll get to a Payless ASAP, but there aren't any open that early in the morning.
Hopefully more posting tomorrow.
Happy motoring.
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