When preparing for any of our trips, we try to anticipate the weather patterns and whether we will use and want our bikes or Kayak. Not wanting to take too much junk, we make choices. Soooo that being said, we decided to buy a blow up Kayak, at least we could get out and enjoy small lakes or rivers when we happen upon them. Pretty cheesy, but better than nothing.
We went for a great paddle around the lake (well, Jack did all the paddling - only one of them at the moment), before getting back on the road. It was calm and amazing.
We are still headed for Roswell, NM and can only lolly gag for a day here and there. Even though we know it is suppose to be fall, here in Arizona, the wildflowers have been prolific and the landscape very green.
Jack was very interested in the Very Large Array, which is 27 white 80-foot radio-telescope antennas, that are used for research from colliding galaxies, exploding stars, black holes, as well as chart the movements of planets. Pretty weird out in the middle of nowhere, well somewhere, NM.
Not too much farther is the Trinity Site, which is where the first Nuclear bomb was tested before WWII. Unfortunately, they are only open 2 days a year for visitors, otherwise, I am sure I would have been in for a treat, while we would have poked around the area learning about nuclear stuff. There is a museum on the to do list for the trip about nuclear power, so will eventually I will be subjected to it.
We arrived at the Valley of Fires Rec. Area, which is a 44 mile lava flow, only 5,000 years old.
Then we settled in for the evening and yet another sunset.
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