[Billie]

OMG! Duck racing! Hi, Jinx! You find the neatest things! But have you ever been to them? :)

Dog racing and horse racing, yes! Ducks? how funny!

[HiJinx]

Shucks, no, never been. We passed through once on our way to Germany via Alabama (Dad's home) and Charleston, SC. It was the day before the races began, but we couldn't afford to stop. Military units don't like it when you don't show up on time!!

Ruidoso is another place we've driven through on the way to somewhere else. I was taking my son, AZ Flyboy, back to school in Tulsa. As someone else said, it doesn't register at first that New Mexico is a varied land of desert, mountain, prairie, canyon, river valleys, mesas, and most anything else you can think of.

Remember Jody Foster's movie, Contact? The VLA (Very Large Array) antenna farm they use to search for extra-terrestrial life is in New Mexico, almost directly across I-25 from Ruidoso. I realize that's a coupla hundred miles, but to us Southwesterners that really isn't so far, is it?

Gotta go...see ya' round!