leaving Albuq to Hard Rock Bosque del Apache



Crazy freeways, very nerveracking.
Leaving Albuquerque NM, we are happy to leave the tangle of spaghetti highways and the fast pace, we stay overnight at Socorro at the Wal-Mart parking lot, we had dinner at a brewery/pizza place where we got talking to a few people who were in town to see the festival of the cranes, from all over the world, Canada, Germany France, so of course we had to check it out.


We got up a 5am and head off to Bosque del Apache wild life centre, maybe a wild goose chase as we don’t know where we are going, but we are amazed when we do find the reserve, we wait in the freezing cold to take some photos, most likely with my camera and standard lens it will be impossible to capture any decent shots, but what the heck we will only be here once so we wait. We did end up getting a few good shots; we will have to invest in a telephoto lens.




The cranes about to fly off Bosque del Apache just before sunrise



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Sunrise and they take flight
The wild life reserve is man made and there are thousands upon thousands of birds nesting and feeding.



Valley of Fires



After leaving Bosque del Apache, went through the valley of the fires, 5000 year old lava flows.



Sheriff Randy and Lee with the Vegemite



Then we stop in a town called Capitan, we met a great Sheriff, Randy we showed him our Alien capture kit and being a local and knowing heaps about this alien thing he was able to give us lots of valuable information. We got Randy to have a taste of the vegemite (alien bate) unfortunately he thought it tasted like fish bait, most people so far think it tastes like S....t

Lincoln County, Billy the Kid territory, also many ufo's have been seen in this area

Fire on the way to Ruidoso



Valley of the Gods Casino and Resort.



Sculptures as the Hubbard Museum

We then went to Billy the Kid county at Lincoln, but because of the time of year most places were closed. Instead of heading straight to Roswell it’s getting late so we stop to ask a local if there were any  other places close by, she recommended stopping  off at Ruidoso where we visited a fabulous resort and casino in the pine forest, had breakfast at an old diner and visited the Hubbard Museum basically it’s a horse museum, with lots of fantastic horse sculptures. The local woman we spoke to  was an  Apache and her husband and their children had actually witnessed a ufo in the woods around their home of Corona back in 1986 ( was the size of  a football field, other witnesses too) .

Sorry about some of the photos being repeated an out of order, this is acting like Jumula, Angela will now what I mean.