My Life and Travels
Wolves
Whittling, each one is made of one piece of wood.
I had never seen this way of crushing rock for gold mining.
These were in the route 66 museum in old town Kingman.
Willie and Waylon
When I did the Blog back on May 27, 2018 I said I had more president pictures which I would post when I got more data. I have more data here are the pictures.
Campsite
Today’s drive
Rained off and on all day.
Campsite
Today’s drive
Rained off and on all day.
They spent a million dollars buy the land from the old fort and rebuild some of the buildings.
The guardhouse was one of the only builds left from the original fort.
The museum in town is in one of the original hotels.
We have one of these at home which Jack has been using.
Fort Stockton museum talked about the cattle and how they helped to make the area grow.
This was a display showing where all the oil came from millions of years ago.
Lot of beautiful paintings.
Information about the oil companies that started here.
Equipment they used to use to drill wells and to they get it out of the ground.
Also had an amazing section of crystals.
It was a good 3-4 hours here.
The sites are really close but at least it is not a parking lot, site 26.
Before we went looking for a new campsite we went to the Presidential Archives and Leadership Library.
We spent 2 and a half hours reading a lot of the information they have displayed about the presidents and their actions while president.
Painting and a informational plaque for every president.
Paintings of all the First Ladies and a ton of more information. The focus is how the presidents lead the nation during it’s many difficult times.
This was a cool painting of all the presidents.
Closer look at the right side of the painting. I know I could have taken a much better pictures. Anyway, this is a place I’d like to go back to if come back through here.
This was the courthouse in Billy the Kid’s time.
Last year we were on the eastern side of New Mexico where he is buried.
The Farm and Ranch Museum had a whole section on bees, and Jean walked through the whole thing.
It is a nice small zoo. It is $5.00 to get in and they have a lot of information about desert plants.
This was in the nocturnal house.
Three bobcats and two mountain lions, these are the bobcats.
If you have one prairie dog you have a bunch and they had a bunch.
They have an aviary however it was closed because a new roof was being put on it.
We had a nice afternoon. Living Desert Zoo & Gardens State Park.
