Finally!

June 14, 2019
Boot Hill RV Resort
Alamogordo, New Mexico

We had a much later start to our summer travels this year.  Danika's family visited Arizona the first week in June and left Troy with us.  He will be traveling with us to Minnesota.  We finally made it on the road June 11.

We took Dani's family to the Grand Canyon while they were here.  It was very hot and crowded but the kids enjoyed the train ride to the Canyon.  The train was robbed on the way back and I don't think Thor has gotten over the fact that cowboys steal your money.  We tried to tell him that they weren't cowboys; they were outlaws but I am not sure he believed us.

Our first stop on our trip was Tombstone, Arizona.  It has changed a lot since we were last there.  I'm not used to it being almost completely deserted.  Many places I remember were no longer there.  Luckily we found a very good ice cream shop.  Troy had a Cotton Candy cone.  He said it was very good but it was such a bright shade of blue that I bet it glowed in the dark.










The next day we traveled to Bisbee to tour the Copper Queen Mine. 

Notice the fashionable attire.  

People ride a "train" that is only one person wide to the lower levels of the mine.  

Due to the close quarters everyone is very well acquainted by the end of the trip.









On the way back to the camper we stopped at Coronado National Memorial.  It sits right next to the Mexican border.  We went through several border checkpoints.








Troy tried on some chain mail armor.  There was a mail shirt also but Dave and I couldn't lift it.  The helmet knocked off Troy's glasses so he couldn't see how he dashing he looked.












Today we visited the New Mexico Space Museum.  It was very nice and they even had trash cans shaped like rockets.  Troy enjoyed the Black Hole movie but it was beyond me.













Troy and I got "transported" on the Star Trek set.









Pistachioland was across the street from the campgroud so we made a quick stop because Dave wanted to get some pistachios.  Troy and I don't like them so we settled for ice cream.  This is supposed to be "The World's Largest Pistachio".

After much time sampling all the different flavors, Dave bought PLAIN
pistachios.





Later in the afternoon we went out to White Sands National Monument.  We borrowed some plastic saucers and climbed the dunes to slide down. 

 It was hard work climbing the dunes so I only went down once.  Troy had more energy so did more sliding.