Dinosaur mural at Mesalands Museum |
Camarasaurus skull - it's a plant eater |
He was a meat eater |
Sandra with Triceratops |
A nasty-looking Allosaur |
Look! He's going to eat the donor plaque! |
Killing claw for a raptor |
T-Rex skull |
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A scenic mural |
Tucumcari has many murals. This was the best we saw, on a building close to downtown. It shows a lot of native animals. If you stan up close, there's even a family of Jackelopes. |
Mural close-up |
Next stop was Fort Sumner, home of Bosque Redondo and Billy the Kid's grave
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Bosque Redondo memorial
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Ft. Sumner is where the Navajo were moved to when they were evicted from their homeland in the 1860s. It's also where Pat Garrett shot Billy the Kid (although that story has its detractors |
Billy the Kid's grave (they think) |
Next stop - Roswell. You KNOW what we did there!
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A painted pony at the UFO museum. Covered with news stories from 1947. |
Sandra visiting the alien autopsy |
Now watch where you're pointing! |
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A spaceship of sequins, UFO Museum |
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