In Our Travels Along The Way

While here, at Alamogordo, we had a chance to visit Fort Stanton Historic Site and the city of Lincoln.

Fort Stanton was built before the civil war to support and protect the settlers coming to the area.  Since then it has been a TB hospital and an internment camp for German POW's during the WWII.

This bed was about the size of a three/quarter size bed.

Very cozy

Off site they are working on the  Merchant Marine cemetery. It is quite impressive

The city of Lincoln is famous for the "Lincoln County War" of 1877 to 1881.  Billy the Kid was involved in that war and it w

as in Lincoln that he killed a federal marshall and a deputy sheriff a few months before he was killed by sheriff Pat Garrett.

First class transportation

Billy the Kidd, 

Often prisoners were handcuffed or shackeled to bars like these when cells were not available

This broken down building appeared to be some type of jail because of the bars remaining on a window in the back

On our way to Deming we stopped by the "White Sands Missile Range" to tour their museum.  They did a security check that took 15 minutes before we were allowed into the area.

Security Checkpoint into the Missile Site in New Mexico.

This is the code name for the test of the first Nuclear device in the White Sands area of New Mexico

Called the Gadget

This is a casing like the one that was around the  plutonium

bomb called Fatboy which was dropped on  Nagasaki,Japan in the second world war. This essentially ended the war.

I think this was an Atlas Missile. They kind of all looked the same to me, just different sizes.

More Missiles

Our view at the approaching mountain range. I wish they named them on the maps.

 Along the way we stopped at McGinn's Pistachio & Winery, where we tasted and bought wine. We were also treated to a view of the worlds largest Pistachio.

This Roadrunner was a frequent visitor in our campsites in New Mexico.