Monday, October 23, 2017

Monday, October 23, 2017

After a slow start to our day, with trying to see if Garmin could help us with my GPS, we went to Ruidoso today.  Bad news on the Garmin, as we will have to upgrade but they will give us a discount if I send in my old one.  What recourse do I have?  So, I will follow Jim around until we get to our park in Apache Junction, and get this rectified.  We found Ruidoso not as appealing as Cloudcroft, but we did find some interesting places to see and geo-cache.
               This is a view of our drive north to Ruidoso.  It was again, a pretty drive.

This was an awesome display at the Billy the Kid National Scenic Byway and Visitor Center.  The horses were so life-like, and they had some of the major horse breeds here.  I was partial to the Paint, as I had a brown and white pinto, when I was a 'farmer's daughter'.

Jim has been avoiding my camera all day, but I finally caught him in the bathroom with 'Care Bear'.  There just are no limits!

A geo-cache took us to Ruidoso Downs, racetrack and casino.  We just found the cache and left with "our own cash"!  The Ruidoso downs has been in existence since 1940 and this year, they had a purse of $3 million.  In comparison, the Kentucky Derby carries a $2 million purse.

This Ruidoso River Trail was one of the nicest things we found in town.  We did a hike on it and they also, had several caches on it.  It was a beautiful day up there.  We were at 7,000 feet elevation.

The trees were really pretty in Ruidoso today.  We should be seeing more of Autumn, as we proceed to travel south.  We did re-up to stay in Alamogordo until Sunday, as we are running out of time, and still have things to do.

We ended our day in Ruidoso with pizza at a recommended place in town called, Cafe Rio.  It was kind of dumpy and eclectic, but their pizza was delicious!  Those places have the best food!  We could only eat half of it, so we'll have it tomorrow again.  I'm all over that!







2 comments:

  1. LOL!! You really are following Jim EVERYWHERE since you are without your Garmin!!

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  2. I thought that picture if Dad was a keeper! Too funny!

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