Odessa and Midland, TX Nov 18-21, 2010

These contraptions started to sprout along the road on our short drive from Pecos to Odessa/Midland area.  Our home while we are here is the Midessa Oil Patch RV Park is located midway between each.

George, Barbara and infant son George W. Bush lived here in his home for about one year.

Just had to see Stonehenge again. The above photo was taken on the campus of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.

The above photo is from the real Stonehenge in England (taken 7/13/09).

We are finding lots of things in Texas are bigger.

I finally gave in and let Bob pick out his new 32” LED TV to replace the 27” one in the RV.

Here is the new one working, Bob wanted to make sure we could get it hooked up and it worked with the Directv.

Bob did some framing behind the TV and the new swivel mount works great.  We just now have to come up with a way to use bungees to secure the TV when we travel.  We LOVE the quality of the picture even though we do not have any HDTV channels yet.

I am standing on the front porch of the George Bush family home in Midland.

The Odessa Meteor Crater is slowly filling itself in. 

I am standing at the current bottom of this crater.  (The salmon color on the above map.)

Tomorrow we are headed to Fredericksburg for Thanksgiving week.

Please keep my sister in your prayers, she starts chemotherapy tomorrow.

Pecos, TX, Nov 14-15-16, 2010

Our 288 mile drive from Columbus, NM to Pecos went well, I drove some too.  The scenery along the way was very similar to what you see in the ‘O’ in Pecos above.  Driving through El Paso on a  Sunday morning was a piece of cake.

We visited the West of the Pecos Museum with a Saloon attached.

In this saloon on October 3, 1896 two men were killed.  There were plaques on the floor marking the spots, check out the arrows.

The Orient Hotel and No. 11 Saloon

The hotel was built in 1904, eight years after the saloon. A connecting hallway joins the two buildings. The buildings' proximity to the train station made it easy to enjoy all that Pecos City had to offer back then.
The saloon was the scene of a double homicide the first year it was open. Bronze markers and a bullet hole show where the fracas took place.

I loved this arrowhead arrangement.  Quite creative.

Below is a beauty parlor chair used in the first beauty parlor in Pecos.  Somehow this contraption gave you a perm.

 

 

Loved looking at these well worn bonnets…

also these worn and sweaty hats.  If only these bonnets and hats could tell their stories.

Don’t you wonder how many loads of laundry or did they call it ‘worsh’ has this washer done.

Tomorrow we are headed towards the Midland/Odessa area.

Another lunch at the Pink Store, Nov 13, 2010

With us only being three miles north of the border, we could not resist another lunch at the Pink Store in Palomas, MX.

While we were staying at the SKP park (Dream Catcher) in Deming I had picked up free drink cards at the office.  This free margarita was very good!

Dessert was on tap for today, wonderful flan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next, was shopping after lunch, in the Pink Store.  Since we are flying back to central CA for Christmas, I bought some presents for a choice few.  Also found some things for us to use in the coach.  Dish soap dispenser, tequila glasses, decorative tray and bowl.

As we were walking back from the Pink Store to the border, I took this photo.  Today was much busier in Palomas than yesterday.

Tomorrow heading into Texas with Pecos as our destination.