Leaving Texas....

We had such a good time the past week and a half in Texas that we are almost sad to leave.  We are not entirely sure we are going to enjoy New Mexico as much.  I always thought it would be the other way around because I've always wanted to go to New Mexico.  Texas was just our second choice when we decided not to go to Oregon.

While we are in the car this morning, Mark is going to read me the section on our New Mexico tour from the Fodor's book.  That will probably get me excited again.

I know that we have a nearly 6 hour drive today ahead of us, so we plan to hit the road by 9 a.m.  There is a time change, so that should put us in Taos about 2 p.m., and we will go straight to the Kit Carson Home and Museum followed by a short trip over to the a nearby park that also has a cemetery in it with Kit Carson's grave.  That's our day for today.  Rudy is flying in to Albuquerque and driving to meet us in Taos, probably while we are in the museum.  He will spend the next week touring NM with us.   Tonight we MUST do laundry, probably two loads, so it can't be too late a day.

Our final museum in Texas, another complex of multiple buildings.

This is the actual square house this place is named for.

Mark enjoyed the photos from Charles Goodnight's JA ranch.

Pretty quilts

Mark has never liked going to the dentist, he would have hated it even more back in the late 1800s.

At night we went to the musical, Texas!, at the bottom of the Palo Duro Canyon.  It was a musical with a great plot that got in lots of history, fabulous singing and dancing, beautiful costumes, people on horses, and a water pageant and fireworks big patriotic finale.  WOW!  What a way to end our stay in Texas.  No pictures were allowed during the show, but this is the stage.  The show opened with a horse and rider carrying a flag up on the canyon's edge. Just a wonderful night!

On our way out, we stopped and got their autographs in our program book.  She sang a beautiful Comanche blessing song during the show.  He played Quanah Parker, the last Comanche chief, and he really IS a great-great-great grandson of Quahnah Parker!