The Masters

OK, I’m not going to write about the Masters.  But John is enjoying watching it this afternoon!  It's not all about traveling and sightseeing. 

Earlier today we visited two places in Albuquerque.  The first was a balloon museum.  While a bizarre topic, it really was quite interesting.  The town has a very large balloon festival in October.  Several local people have set world records like crossing the Atlantic in a gas balloon for the first time.  It was fun since they had several displays where you can heat up a small balloon to fly it or try to fly on a large video game display. 

By the way, one display discussed an early balloon flight that landed near Roswell and was mistaken for an alien ship.  It says "...to detect sound waves resulting from Soviet weapon tests...A balloon launched in June of 1947 is believed to be the cause of the Roswell UFO incident."  Lots of different viewpoints out there!

Our second visit was to the Petroglyph National Monument.  We’ve seen quite a few petroglyphs now but this was another national park to add to our list.  Plus, there were many petroglyph shapes we hadn’t seen before.  Neat!