From Fort Stockton,Tx to Roswell in New Mexico

We left "Apache Springs" in Texas - outside of Fort Stockton - and we drove for hours the 285 North over flat country and farm land with many oil wells and pretty landscape.

We arrived in Pecos, the home of the world first rodeos

Entering now the State of New Mexico - Viva la vida!

The sky was very dark in Artesia but not because of coming rain, it was because of a sand storm building up all over the flat regions there.

The street was straight as an arrow for miles - it seemed like it will never end!

In a little village with the nice name "Loving" was the main attraction this sculpture of a Cowboy on a horse.

Very nice to see were also the already slight green blooming trees against the blue sky on the way to Carlsbad

Or all the Yucca plants, a typical plant in this hot and dusty area

Somebody tried to shoot into this sign - Billy the kid maybe - or just some drunk Cowboys?... LOL.. :))

In the middle of no man's land was "Lake Arthur" - a real lake in this dry desert area

Carlsbad was not a place for me to stay, nothing exciting to see except the only one attraction is a big natural cave outside of Carlsbad, that's it - nothing more. I don't like caves to much! The same disappointment was Roswell for me. All over town you can see all those "Alien" shops, filled with plastic toys and souvenir kitsch about "Area 501". A lot of the business were tuned into that "out of space" and "U.F.O." kitsch.

Like this one very well known Supermarket - and that was surprising for me too.

Also Wal Mart was into UFO's and Aliens etc.... we stayed that night on their parking lot and were shaken nearly brainless by the horrendous desert wind.


Hi my friends,

thanks again for all your visits and kind compliment. You're right, this country is beautiful and it changes its landscape so often and in such a wonderful way! You all can be very proud of your country!

I will show you tomorrow from our trip today from Roswell trought real desert areas with white sand, yellow grass and high mountains. We are arrived tonight here on a nice campground at almost 6000 feet high and we drove since our start in January more than 4000 miles!!

See you tomorrow!
Susanne and David

West of the Pecos - Big Bend Country

We left Friedericksburg pretty early this Wednesday morning and drove 223 miles toward West. With these pictures I like to show you the many faces of beautiful Texas. I don't know anymore all the names of the places where we went trough, sorry. Just enjoy the scenes like I did with my camera. Almost all photos are made out from the car.

For the most I liked the sky!

Driving on I-10 down hill between these canyons and after every curve we get presented a new, different and beautiful scenery...

Far in the back there were hills covered with hundreds of wind mills
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A typical Texas country scene

Only 66 miles more to our goal for today - and "only" 311 miles more to El Paso :))

For me this looks like a scene out of an old cowboy movie, like many other scenes I have seen today.

Ozona is in Crockett County Texas, named after David Crockett "The back woods man from Tennessee" who died in defending the Alamo and made famous again by Walt Disney in the 1950's.

And this is not a joke! This sign I have photographed somewhere on a resting area - happily there were no snakes around. But, always watch your steps in Texas!

Hi my friends,

Just now we are resting here in the region of "Apache Springs" and we'll be going tomorrow further, probably in direction "Carlsbad" and "Roswell" in New Mexico. Maybe I will capture some (real?) Aliens there?....LOL..... :))

Thanks for all your wonderful comments to my last post! Very much appreciated.

Susanne and David