El Paso, TX
3/13 - 16
 The
drive from Van Horn to El Paso was about 110 miles so we arrived at the
Mission RV park in El Paso around noon today. This gave us some time in
the afternoon to visit Hueco Tanks state park. This is a fascinating area
about 20 miles out of town that has a history of human habitation dating
back about 8000 years all the way to when the Apaches used it as a hideout
in the mid 1800's. |
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 The
main objective of the Hueco Tanks park is to preserve the archeology of
the area. Unfortunately the defacing of the area started in the mid 1800's
and continued through the early 1990's. This is a pictograph that dates
back to around 1000 A.D. It is about 8 inches in diameter. This is much
more stylish than the Anasasi pictographs we saw in Utah. |
 I
took this picture for Matthew. The sheer walls and the porous nature of
the rocks seem to be calling to all climbers in the area. It's a little
difficult to see the climbers, so I included the red arrow to point out
the climber on the pitch. |
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| 3/15 Today we ended up the the War Eagles Air Museum. The picture above is a pano of the museum. What a fantastic place. They had many WW2 and Korean conflict war planes restored to flying condition. They also had some period cars and private planes. We spent about two hours looking over the collection. Fortunately there was a very informative area about women in aviation which Susan enjoyed. |
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Some of my personal favorites are the P-51 Mustang on the left, which is undergoing restoration, and the F4 Corsair on the right. The F4 saw most of its action in the Pacific being flown from carriers by Marine pilots.
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