Three weeks on the road!

We are in Dalhart, TX

Click any of the photos to enlarge and click the "weather" above for our weather.

Great weather.  Spent couple hours this afternoon riding part of the trail at Lake Rita Blanca which was a state park, but now is a city park of Dalhart.
We had intended on going on into New Mexico today, but when Phyllis talked with Dennis Geer in Albuquerque to tell him we would see him later this week, found out he and his wife are getting on a

plane in the morning and heading to eastern Iowa.  They will be in Clarinda this weekend and get back to Albuquerque next Tuesday.  We found that the XIT Museum here in Dalhart is not open on Mondays and decided to just take some extra time

 here and over in New Mexico so will still be in Albuquerque area next Wednesday.  We spotted a good RV Park here and when setting up Phyllis spotted a bad cut on one of the trailer tires.  We pulled to a recommended tire place and had it replaced and then

 went on the bicycle ride.  Glad we didn't go a lot further with the tire because it was a pretty deep cut.  This only 4 days after we had the Ford in the shop to have 5 fuel injectors replaced and all 4 brakes smoothed and new pads.

At lunch in a local restaurant I had inquired about Lake Rita Blanca and our waitress said it "was a joke"  nothing there and just green water.  I asked about the trails and she said she didn't know anything about them.  That was sure right.  The lake had a lot of ducks and other birds.  When we  

 stopped so the tires didn't make their sound on the fine gravel/sand we were on it was really nice.  All sorts of birds calling.  Even though the temperature was 84 degrees, there was a little breeze and while we were moving it was really nice.  The whole trail was something like 9 miles.  We haven't ridden the trikes much lately and we turned around a little under 2 miles and put in about 4 miles total.  The path had some pretty good rise and fall to it and with the spots of soft gravel/sand it was a pretty good workout.

I had mentioned in last post that we had visited Dorothy and Toto at their house from the Wizard of Oz in Liberal, KS.  Here is one of the photos.

While Donna & Phyllis were at the nail shop Wes went with me on a recumbent trike ride.

           Donna & Phyllis in their breakfast nook.

Saw a lot of big grain elevators in the panhandle of Oklahoma on the way through.

 Several were working on picking up the outside piles of corn.

 This is at the same elevator as above, another huge pile still covered.  There were a lot of small feedlots and kill plants in the area, though we really didn't see that many fields that might have been, or would be corn fields.  Speculating if this grain is brought in for feeding, but that wouldn't make sense for the outside piles.

This is one of the smaller feed lots we saw.  We did see off in the distance what appeared to be a huge hog confinement setup.

We are going to do the XIT Museum here in the morning, maybe ride some more trail at the lake and then head to the Capulin Volcano National Monument and look around that area and Raton, NM before going on to Santa Fe.

Later, Lynn