April 21, 2009

Leaving The Rally

Yesterday was the last day of The Rally.  We went to one seminar on Picasa.  We have to teach ourselves to be comfortable with this program.  It is very powerful and easy to use once one is familiar with it.  After that Sue went to the WIFI hot spot and downloaded a bunch of embroidery files and I took one last pass through the venders.  Then we came back to Carbus and packed up to leave the next day.

The entertainment for the evening was Papa Do Run Run.  A 50s and 60s Beach Boy style group.  Some members had affiliation with Beach Boys.

This morning we left the Balloon Park about 7:45am.  It wasn’t a madhouse but there was a steady stream of RVs leaving.  We headed about 30 miles and then southeast to visit a couple of ruins sites in the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.  Pretty amazing.  Same idea as the California missions only earlier and in the high desert and much of the surrounding villages are visible due to stone construction.  These churches were not small.  The two we saw would rival those of the missions.

These are the ruins of the mission at Abo.  This church had a choir loft and a bell tower.

Advice.

 

These are some shots of the Gran Quivira ruins.  The pictures are mostly of village ruins.  The bottom picture is of the ‘Old Church’.  Another one built several decades later was twice as large and quite tall.  I think Sue has pictures of it.  I will try to get some.

    

A tree grows in Brooklyn.

We continued on to Alamagordo to a very nice RV park called Boot Hill.  Very nice and helpful owners and staff and clean and fresh park.  Almost hated to use our Passport America discount.  :)  Would not mind staying here again and seeing some of the area.

Tomorrow, White Sands and on to Carlsbad.