White sands ,NM:
Visited the white sands national park on Sunday. Went over in the morning and did the drive thru, climbed some dunes, walked the 3/4 mile boardwalk. Saw a few lizzards,not much else,too hot for critters . Headed back to camp ,had lunch and went over to the pistacio grove across from our rv park. Saw the trees ,bought some pistacio's ,tasted some wine. They coat there pisticio's with flavorings or spices. Can get them hot,mild,lemon flavor,ranch,etc.We bought lemon and ranch
Left after supper to go back to the sands for a easy sunset dune stroll ,led by a ranger. Stayed long enough to see the sunset behind the San Andras Mts.,very beautiful. Forgot to say we ventured into a do it yourself car wash on the way over. Bad idea. Left soap streaks alllll over the truck. Ended up toweling off the truck this morning before we went out.

Memorial day;
This morning we decided to visit a place called three rivers petroglyph site. It wasen't far from our rv park. We took the dogs,thinking for sure they could walk with us. Wrong. We were able to find a place under a tree that would shade them for a bit. We could see the truck from the elevation we walked up,so not to worry. Once on the trail,there were numbered signs to indicate where the glyphs were. There were petroglyphs everwhere. 21,400 petroglyphs were identified by a team from the university of NM. Jornada poeple from approx 600 years ago did all the drawings . From there we went back,loaded up the trailer and headed west. Back past the white sands and thru Las Crucis,a largeish ,sprawling town, at the foothills of the portrillo mts. Most of the trip was flat except for a long gruling climb up from the white sands missel proveing grounds. This would be over the San Andres mts. Truck was very happy to reach the top. Along rt 10,and off on 180,which ended up to be very straight,with a gradual climb to Silver city where we are now. Tomorrow we are off to see the Gila cliff dwellings, which were the home of the Mogollon people. Should be a good day.

Sat. May 29 . We left that very nice koa in carlsbad to travel forward on the adventure. Not so much to see for most of the trip today,not till we reached the mountains. An easy climb up,not even noticing the grades. Pretty soon we saw signs that said all trucks must have eng.retarders , so many miles ahead of us. Well,we have tow haul, why worry. There is a town at the top (and ski area!!) ,called cloudcroft. No special attachment to this town,except on the other side starts the downhill run. Tow haul held us back alot,but also did alot of brakeing. By the time we stopped halfway down at a pull over for lunch, I smell d the brakes. Not a good smell. !!
Oh yea,there were at least three runaway truck ramps we passed. Thankfully we passed them all. Campsite here is not pretty at all. we did have a view of the mountains till someone came in next to us. Oh well,maybe next place will be better. Can't complain too much,as our sites have been pretty good so far. Tomorrow we are off to see the white sands of NM. This is where they tested our first atom bomb I do believe. They also use this area for the missel proveing grounds,or at least used to. Will find out more tomorrow. There is also the white sands monument which is where we are going. They have a ranger led easy stroll sunset walk,where they talk about the night animals of the desert. Should be fun. Its only 15 miles away,not the 50 it took to get to the caverns of our last stop.Pictures should follwo soon
Love Dad

Hores drawn cinderalla cariages on beal st,memphis. Corn fence,metal mesuem. Waterfall at the woodland gardens. Cant get e-mail out yet,I'll send some more tomorrow. Dad

Outdoor chappel at the woodland gardens,hot springs . Outdoor r.r. at the woodland gardens. Third is a metal fish sculpture at thr metal museum. I'll keep trying

I'll just try to get some pictures out. Always seems to be a chore to get online,must be an easier way. Pictures are not in order. First one is at hot springs national park,arkansas. Next is from the state park in memphis. Third would be yogy bears jellystone park in memphis

3 rd try;

From Ky horse park we headed down to tenn. Nashville,then on to Memphis. On the way we stumbled into the national corvette museum. Some very interesting cars to see,and the setting were set to the period of automobile. Overnight we stayed at the jellystone rv park. Nice place,and high enough to escape the recent flooding in Nashville. We saw so much depris put out from the flood. Poor people.!! On to Memphis and ribs,ribs,ribs. The best BBQ we have ever tasted,and the ribs just melted off the bone for you. Saw Beal street,home of the blues music. Some groups were playing in various places along the stree. Nice. We had a nice spot to set the rv in a state park here. Went to the national metal museum. Here people come from all over to learn how to sculpt metal. The next writweing will be from Arkansas on. I hope.!!!

Next adventure took us back (have been here before) to the Kentucky horse park. This is a very nice park with roomy campsites. On way ,we had to wait on highway for about 1 1/2 hours for a bad accident ahead. Also stopped at a rest area for information,only to find that the building was closed for a waterleak. The park was crowded,more than we expected. There was some horse jumping competition going on. We adventured over and took in some of the events, fun to watch. Good place to excercise the dogs. Hitched a ride to the arena on someones golf cart. Nice person to stop and ask if we needed a ride. This park will host the world events in sept. Horse trailers all over the place, some very extravagent. People come from all over the USA to compete here. One quickly gets the feel of how big this sport is. From here it is on to Nashville ,tenn.

After leaveing jersey we stayed overnight at a campground in western maryland. Then traveled to western west va. North bend state park, a damned ,muddy river state park. Saw deer,good bird activity,and very nice fields. Sat in our recliners and watched t. storms out our back window. Stayed another day here and traveled to the Fenton glass factory. Saw the glass blowing process(very hot job). Had a good lunch across the border in Marriet Ohio.

We started this long adventure with an overnight at our sons place in Farmington,me. Second day out brought us to Salisbury beach state park in Mass. for an overnight and some good food.
Next it was on to Our daughters ,Dawn & Mike and the grand kiddies. We went to Morgans horse show on sunday,and had a good time watching the competition. Morgan is growing,but is still a little girl ,and handled this big horse with ease. Elvada farms ,who she rides for,has a loveing exdended family. Dylan landed a job handing out ribbons to the winners. Then it was fun to be with Dawn and family for dinner at the Chatterbox car hop, so we could also see the old cars on display with a car club. 65 gto ,was our pick of the cars there. Now we are getting ready to leave for the remainder of our trip. More later
Sallie & Fred

Welcome to Fred and Sallie's 2010 Adventure!

First stop... New Jersey~