 The picture of my daughter and family was taken last summer, but I did not take a whole family one this trip. All too soon our week of babysitting was over. But we with their family made one last excursion the weekend we were to leave. On Saturday we drove south through Tucson and to Benson, Arizona. Near Benson is Kartchner State Park. In the park are some very large caves that were discovered in 1967 and not open to the public but just a few years. The caves are closed from April through October for the sake of preserving a bat colony. The other months there are tours, but the numbers are very limited. Luckily our son in law was able to reserve tickets for us on that Sunday morning. We drove to Benson on Saturday morning and spent Saturday afternoon in Tombston, Arizona, then spent the night at a motel in Benson. the cave tour was spectacular, but unfortunately they did not let anyone take in cameras and I did not buy slides. I am sure there are pictures on the internet somewhere. On Sunday afternoon we headed home on interstate 10. We took interstate 10 to Deming, New Mexico, then took a shortcut up to Hatch, New Mexico. (didn't get any peppers there, though) Spent the night in Santa Fe, New Mexico, then up interstate 25 to Trinidad, Colorado, highway 350 east to Rocky Ford, then Colorado state highway 71 up to interstate 76 and back to Nebraska. I did not take pictures on the way back, but had my pictures developed at Walmart when we got back. There was still on that roll a picture of my Christmas tree of 2003.  And a picture of our house that I took back in February after one of our few snows this past winter.  And a picture of a marker which is part of a large memorial to 20th century veterans that is being built in our town of North Platte. They are still selling bricks in case anyone is interested.  Last page P.S. |
