To quote Capt. Ron....."I think we will just gut flop New Mexico today." Oh well, not a surprise to me.
Stopped for lunch in San Antonio, NM, at the Buckhorn Tavern. You can read up on it, but their "green chili cheeseburger" is ranked #7 in America. And man, it was awesome!
The weather is really strange today - very windy, tornado like winds, dust storms and some rain. We decided to land at Bottomless Lakes State Park outside of Roswell NM. Pretty place. Thundering like crazy. I grabbed the camera so I could get some pictures of the place before the rain hit. Never figured that what I was going to see was some tornadoes forming. We alerted the camp hosts and located the bathrooms, in case we needed a safe place. Those tornadoes went in another direction and we were feeling safe UNTIL we looked behind us and oh my gosh......there was one coming at us - you could see the debris and sticks and stuff blowing around it. The hail was starting and we didn't think we'd have time to make it to the closest bathroom. I didn't know I could run that fast (at that altitude). Made it into the men's room with most of our fellow campers and waited it out. It went beside the campground, but that was still too close for me! I appreciated observing several young folks on their knees praying for safety during it. After all this excitement, things settled down enough to get out for a bike ride. It did rain and thunder all night. This area needed rain as they said it hasn't rained in 1 1/2 years here.
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| Look for the eagle! |
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| Tornadoes kept forming here |
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| This wasn't the one that came through the campground. |
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