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Bob Durkin and I went on a little road trip today.
First we went to Deming and visited the Deming Gem & Mineral Society office and workshop. They have a very nice set up and the people we met sure were nice.
Then we went up to the City of Rocks New Mexico state park. The primary purpose of our visit was to see the rock art, and we were not disappointed. They have two very
nice Kokopelli pictographs.
Afterwards we stopped at the very highly developed Faywood Hot Springs. I really preferred this location before it was developed.
After eating lunch at a nice little Mexican restaurant in Deming, NM we went over to Rockhound State Park just east of town. We stopped in the rock shop just before entering the park to meet some very interesting guys
who run the geode shop there.
At the state park they have a nice little museum there which really is well worth
visiting. It is small but has nice exhibits on the minerals found in the area, the flora and fauna of the area, some nice stuff from the mid to late 1800’s military and cowboys, and a very nice exhibit on the buffalo soldiers.
When we left there we drove up the road to Spring Canyon right in the heart of the Florida mountains. This drive truly cannot be described by anything other than
superlatives. Really fantastic.
All in all a very nice day indeed!
First we went to Deming and visited the Deming Gem & Mineral Society office and workshop. They have a very nice set up and the people we met sure were nice.
Then we went up to the City of Rocks New Mexico state park. The primary purpose of our visit was to see the rock art, and we were not disappointed. They have two very
nice Kokopelli pictographs.Afterwards we stopped at the very highly developed Faywood Hot Springs. I really preferred this location before it was developed.
After eating lunch at a nice little Mexican restaurant in Deming, NM we went over to Rockhound State Park just east of town. We stopped in the rock shop just before entering the park to meet some very interesting guys
who run the geode shop there.At the state park they have a nice little museum there which really is well worth
visiting. It is small but has nice exhibits on the minerals found in the area, the flora and fauna of the area, some nice stuff from the mid to late 1800’s military and cowboys, and a very nice exhibit on the buffalo soldiers.When we left there we drove up the road to Spring Canyon right in the heart of the Florida mountains. This drive truly cannot be described by anything other than
superlatives. Really fantastic.All in all a very nice day indeed!
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If you want to see all of the pictures we took today go to this link: http://new.photos.yahoo.com/h_paul_garland/album/576460762391796524
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