June 21, 2004

Day 11 of 16

We started this day with leaving Carlsbad on another long driving day. We said our good-byes to David this morning. All the other bugs and people had left ahead of us. It was sad to see to only see one other NB in the hotel parking lot this morning. We will miss everyone that we saw this past weekend. Hopefully we will be able to do this again soon.

Off to Texas we go. After our stop for the boarder pictures, we stopped at the West of the Pecos Museum. This was a cute little museum, all kinds of stuff from different time periods of this town, right to the present. The most recent additional to this museum was a tribute to one of their hometown soldier's killed last year in Iraq.

Then we stopped at the seconded largest meteor crater in this country. This was not real exciting. Most of it has filled in over time. So it hardly looked like much of a hole. At least we didn't waste allot of time here.

Then we found some Tumbleweed. Naomi really loves tumbleweed, so we had to stop and take some pictures and make the tumbleweed tumble. She would be in heaven if she actually saw some tumble across the road, something she had really hoped for in Tombstone.

Then we went to Odessa, to find the worlds largest Jackrabbit statue. We also find found a few painted jackrabbit statues throughout the town. Then we had lunch at Whataburger (or as Heather calls it, Waterburger). She enjoyed her first Whataburger.

Then it was off to the Stockyards in Fort Worth. We will be spending the next two nights at the Stockyards Hotel. This is a really nice hotel. Heather really seems to like antique furniture and cowboy decorations. We arrived around 10 pm, so we just got everything unpacked and went to bed.

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looks like a cross between Black Eye Susans and sunflowers	Bob at the Texas boarder		Bob, Angelisa, and the Texas state line sign
Heather and Bob at the Texas boarder	This guy killed between 18-20, but most people that lived liked him. Not sure why.

		Heather wanted a picture of the big boot.	Heather getting her Texas park ranger badge
Original bar that was used in this saloon		no idea who these people our, but this was on the floor, so Mitch took a picture of it
empty safe	Train stuff		Railway date Nails
	train stuff


		Heather looking like she about to get attacked by the giant bird
	Judge Roy Bean
old school house room



	looks like Laura Ingells hats (one of Mitch's favorite tv shows :)	Old dolls
outside the museum			oil fields
			doesn't get much more exciting then this
	I have seen a few to many snake signs on this trip. But thankfully I have seen any snakes!	Hey look, there I am in the reflection
		hiking out of the crater	Angelisa looking into the crater
oil at the crater	still hiking out, this is a huge hole
still hiking out		crater number 2
	I like these flowers	Mitch isn't real crazy about them
Angelisa on the rim of the crater	TUMBLEWEED!!!! Yea!!!	stuck to the fence, not sure this stuff really tumbles	tumbling !!!
tumbling more!	vacation is complete, we have found tumbleweed and made it tumble!!!	painted jackrabbit in Odessa	another painted jackrabbit
and yet still another jackrabbit	the worlds tallest jackrabbit statue
Angelisa and the jackrabbit	he is suppose to be 8 feet tall		his fluffy bunny tail :)
Angelisa, Mitch and the jackrabbit	another painted jackrabbit		The Lions park entrance
close ups of the Lions Park jackrabbits		just another train	our room at the Stockyards Hotel