A NIGHT TO REMEMBER!!

                                         WE SPENT A NIGHT IN ROSWELL NEW MEXICO

SCARY!!!

The scariest thing that has happened on our trip, happened in Roswell.  We had spent a long and wonderful day at Carlsbad Caverns.  We were hot, tired and hungry and trying to find the RV Park in Roswell were we had reservations for the night.  It was getting dark and per our GPS we were just about to our destination.  When what to our wandering eyes would appear...a railroad crossing!!  Now we have passed over many railroad crossing on our trip, but this was a special one unbeknownst to us.  The jolt from crossing the uneven tracks broke the padlock holding one arm of the tow bar connecting the dingy (Jeep) to the motor home.  Thank goodness for the rear view screen, we were able to see something definitely wrong in back.  The one arm of the tow bar was dragging on the pavement.  But we were able to disconnect the other arm and I drove the Jeep to the RV Park.  We had several nice people stop and offer to help us.  No harm done, except for a broken padlock, probably laying back on the tracks.  Thank you Heavenly Father.  Prayers are answered.

Well that little episode put a damper on our Roswell experience.  We decided not to hang around to go to the UFO Museum or drive over to Area 51.  Our orginial plan was to continue to drive around 200 miles North to Albuquerque.  We wanted to attend the Temple there and visit some old friends from the Parkland Ward, Duane and Louise Thompson.  We called them, and they were both suffering from the flu, which we did not want to share, plus they were predicting snow and freezing weather for Roswell North.  So we decided to high tail it out of town as quickly as possible and head South over a range of mountains to Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico.