500 Miles Through
New Mexico's
Best Roads and Scenery
Page 1
A pictorial history, with commentary of an 2005 trip
to the Butterfly Sidecar Rally in New Mexico, up the
western slope of the continental divide to Montana
and then, down the mountains (down hill all the
way), back home to Wisconsin.
The first leg: To the
Butterfly
Traveling
south west from Menomonie, one passes near Austin
Minnesota, home of the Hormel Company and of the
Museum, which honors one of it's products.
Endless
conveyers of SPAM and the Official Home of Monty
Python's Spamalot
http://www.spam.com/
BTW, FWIW, I
visited CR in KC, MO, not KC, KS where he installed
a 5 gallon fuel cell on the rig.
We then
traveled together for a couple of days before he
returned home and I continued onward and upward
towards the divide and troubles.
This is a
picture of a couple of old dilapidated edifices,
somewhere in Oklahoma.
This lucky one was honored to
be able to participate in
an event of historical significance: The
first May
blizzard Amarillo had experienced in over 50 years
;-(
Roswell, where
the aliens are amongst us.
Here tis one as we speak,
kinda looks like the fellow a couple of houses down
the street.
Nuff said!!!
First gathering.
Driver's meeting: the
Nethandral addressing the troglodytes.
The street of Lincoln and a
couple of dusty hombres just of the trail. Lincoln
was site of land wars of such magnitude that the
Calvary was called to intercede.
Bullet hole in wall. Billy the
Kid escaped the Lincoln jail, killing 2 officers.
Hole alleged to have been made by a round that
passed through one.
Not quite the fort of
westerns. Mud/adobe walls 2 to 3 feet thick, 25 -30
foot interior with a fire pit and ladder to roof.
Settlers "forted up" when Apaches menaced and land
owners used it during the land wars.
Smokey the Bear was buried
here at 3am some years ago because there was fear
that his remains, which had been shipped from
Washington, in ice, were to be kidnapped.
SKUNKs are everywhere.
JR Avanell and lucky dog.
Massive lava bed flowed from volcano - small hump on
horizon in middle of picture
Traveling
south west from Menomonie, one passes near Austin
Minnesota, home of the Hormel Company and of the
Museum, which honors one of it's products.
BTW, FWIW, I
visited CR in KC, MO, not KC, KS where he installed
a 5 gallon fuel cell on the rig.
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Nuff said!!!
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Not quite the fort of
westerns. Mud/adobe walls 2 to 3 feet thick, 25 -30
foot interior with a fire pit and ladder to roof.
Settlers "forted up" when Apaches menaced and land
owners used it during the land wars.
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