The Trip Back Home

June 3, 4, 5, 2005 - Central Oklahoma Grotto - Carlsbad Caverns Restoration Trip

Part III - The Trip Back Home

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On the way home on Sunday, after eating a big ol' breakfast... we headed home... And stopped on the way at Roswell, NM - Home of the Alien Crash Site. We toured the Alien Museum....
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Roy was almost possessed... but Nicole slapped the @*#@!! out of him and he was better. Dale and Anne in the tourist trap...errr.. gift shop! A prospective new caver... but can't do the squeezes!
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Anne measuring up to our new friend. The view from near Caprock Canyons Park. Always a nice view...
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The hikers always start getting wide eyed around here.... in fact... Jon left our caravan at this point to go there and hike in the last hours of daylight! No problem.... it it a neat area
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Also... a needed break after being in the car for the last 350 miles!!
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Then on the way home... a purple thistle gained the attention of the group... After all..it wasn't a thistle.. just a flower looking like one... Can we go home now?? After leaving the Towns in Altus, the Lawton & OKC group got to just narrowly miss a tornado near Snyder!

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