America To-Do List
Memphis – Graceland, the King’s grave
Loraine motel in Memphis - National Civil Rights museum, Martin Luther King
Memphis rock & roll museum
Chaucalissa Archaeological Museum in Memphis, Tenn
Clinton Presidential Museum in Little Rock
Hot Springs National Park Little Rock
Hot springs Health Spa
Paris, Texas try to find BHG’s birth records or Paris opera house
Dallas, Texas: Grassy Knoll, Sixth floor museum at Dealy Plaza
Dallas Museum of natural history
Steam Railroad Museum
Frontiers of flight museum at Love Field
Dallas Museum of Art. The museum’s collections include superb works from ancient cultures, including those of native North America, Mesoamerica and South America. Materials range from textiles and ceramics to terra-cotta and gold. The museum also offers special exhibits displaying art and artifacts from many cultures and civilizations. Public programs and seminars complement the art exhibitions. Located at intersection of Saint Paul St. and Woodall Rodgers Fwy. www.dm-art.org
Las Vegas – Beatles show at the Mirage Hotel
Go to Balmat, New York
Go to New Jersey to see museum of glow rocks
Go back to New York City
Capulin Volcano in NE New Mexico
Grants, NM museum of mining
Acoma pueblo
Go to presidential museum in Midland
Permian basin petroleoum museum
Museum of the southwest Midland
Historic Fort Stockton
Odessa meteor crater
UFO site outside of Roswell
International UFO Museum near Roswell
Blackwater Draw archaeological site 5 mi N of Portales on 467
Museum for above 5 mil NE of Portales on 70
This is where Clovis Man was found
Bottomless Lakes State Park
Roswell crash site 60 miles away
Fort Stanton and caves nearby
Grave of Smokey Bear
Otero Mesa, Cornudas Mountain, Rock art
Fort Garland Colorado
Alamogordo Clyde W. Tombaugh space center
Sunspot Sacramento Peak
Three Rivers Petroglyphs
Nearby Lava Flow at Valley of the Fires
Jornada del Muerto
Hot springs in Truth or Consequences
e-mail Christophe from T or C
Geronimo springs museum T or C
Radium Springs
Ft Selden State Park at Radium springs
Go search around in Las Uvas
Derry Warm Springs
Souse Hot Springs
Hillsboro Warm Spring
Mimbres Hot Springs
Gila hot springs
Ft Selden State Monument
City of Rocks northwest of Deming
Hot springs near City of Rock
Rock Hound state park near Deming
Pony Hills petroglyphs north of Deming
Ft Cumming near Cookes Peak 1882
Cooke’s spring
Hadley Draw
Cemetary at Ft Cummings
Ft Bayard Ruins
Ft Bayard National Cemetery East of Silver City
Cedar mountains archaeological site West of Deming
Shakespeare Ghost Town
Leasburg Dam state park
Socorro
UV Museum in Socorro
Go to Bingham east of Socorro on US 380 see http://www.azuv.com/
Also Magdalena, NM West of Socorro on hwy 60
Silver Hill NW of Magdalena
Datil Well NRA
Hillsboro & Kingston NM
Albuquerque
Sandia Man cliff dwellings on 165 North of Albuquerque
Sandia Crest
ABQ Archaeological museum
National Atomic museum
Museum of SW biology
UNM Geology museum
NM Museum of natural history
Turquoise Museum
Petroglyph national monument
Mesa Verde - Just into Colorado north of 4 Corners and Farmington
Petroglyph Point trail
Jemez Hot Springs
Soda Dam Calcium Carbonate
Spence Hot Spring
Valles Caldera
Bandera Volcano
Bandera ice caves
Bisti Badlands/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
Chaco Culture - 3 different sites
Shiprock
Volcanic dikes
Aztec Museum northeast of Farmington
Canyon de Chelly SW of Shiprock
Petrified forest SW of Chaco
Huerfano Mesa
Canyon de chelly
Spider Rock Overlook, Monument Canyon
Rock formations near Newcomb, NM
White Mesa Arch
Monument Valley
Window Rock
Navajo Tribal Museum
St Michaels Historical Museum
Red Rock State Park NM
Santa Fe
Museum of New Mexico
Georgia O’Keefee Museum
Anasazi ruins NW of town
Bandelier National Monument
Los Alamos
Puye Cliff Dwellings
Billy The Kid’s burial site near Ft Sumner
Ft Stanton NM, Beth’s cave and other caves like Ft Stanton Cave
Bosque del Apache
Trinity Test Site when it is open twice per year
Alamo canyon petroglyph site east of El Paso
Ft Hancock
Ft Quitman
Indian Hot Springs east of Ft Quitman
El Paso Zoo. Especially look at Grey Wolves
Insights El Paso Science Museum
Planetarium
Go to Keystone Heritage Park on Doniphan. 4,000 yr old archaeological site
Go to Magoffin House
Centennial Museum at UTEP
Go search for fluorite north of Deming at Fluorite ridge
Go look for UV minerals near Hatch airport (opal and chalcedony)
Look up Loyad E. Anderson in Rincon
Rincon Quarry
Confluence of lat and lon lines in Jornada del Muerto (confluence.org)
Go to mines at Oro Grande
Nannie Baird mine
Alice mine
Dog Canyon south of Alamogordo
Oliver Lee State Park
Space Museum in Alamogordo
Gila cliff dwellings
Look for calcite and aragonite at the various hot springs around the Gila cliff dwellings
Kilbourne Hole
Hunts Hole
Go to Aden crater
Aden lava flow
Go to Pat Garret’s grave in Las Cruces
Las Cruces museum of natural history
University Museum NMSU
Gadsden Museum
Dripping springs
Modoc Mine in mountains near Las Cruces
Go to Ojuela mine near Torreon
Archaeological site near Nuevo Casas Grandes
Puye Cliff Dwellings
Go to Mesa Verde
Go to Carlsbad Canyon
Go to D.H. Lawrence grave near Taos
Museum of Big Bend in Alpine, Tx
Terlingua ghost town
Search for Calcite in Big Bend near Terlingua
Little 38 mine
Sinkhole
Salitario Caldera
Santa Elena canyon
Big Bend national park
BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Brewster Co.
Big Bend National Park. Evidence of Indian-Spanish-Mexican cultural adaptations to the Big Bend’s arid environment can be seen throughout the 800,000-acre park, which also contains over 450 historic structures and ruins related to ranching, mining, early settlement, and the military. See especially the Castolon Historic Compound, where many structures date from the period of Pancho Villa’s border raids, and the Glenn Spring area, which lies on a branch of the Comanche Trail. Two prehistoric sites, the Hot Springs pictograph site and the Chimneys, are also are accessible to the public. Park headquarters located at Panther Junction. www.nps.gov/bibe/cultural.htm
Langtry Texas home of Judge Roy Bean law west of the Pecos 7 The Jersey Lily
Caverns of Sonora - Rated by some as the most beautiful caves, even more beautiful than Carlsbad.
Hueco Tanks. Take official tour and see rock art and Butterfield stage station
Butterfield Trail – Follow from The Pinery in the Guads to Cornudas to Hueco Tanks, over to near the El Paso airport, and out near Deming.
Bisbee Mining Museum
Sonora Desert Museum Tuscon
Top Gem Minerals Tucson
Arizona State Museum
Obsidian Gallery
Purple Passion Mine Phoenix
Hogan claim Phoenix
Gene Roddenberry planetarium
Trinity atomic bomb site: Trinity Site is open to the public twice a year--on the first
Saturday in April and October.
Frontera Baja Dam Juarez ca N31.78722 W–106.53338
Oaxaca State SW of Mexico CityArchaeological sites http://oaxaca-travel.com/guide/cultural.php?section=cultural&lang=us&getdoc=true&atractivo=10.02.01.01
About Me
- H Paul Garland
- Like the Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, I went to Austin High in El Paso, Texas. I moved to California right after high school. Graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1971 with honors. Worked on a master's degree, then to avoid going to Vietnam I joined the U.S. Army to be at 3rd Armored Div HQ in Frankfurt, Germany. I was there for almost 3 years. Bicycled and backpacked a lot in the Swiss Alps. Had some good times, saw some of the world, and grew up a little. I went to law school at U.T. Austin for a while, raised a family, got elected to a minor political position in El Paso, had 3 great wives, owned a Corvette then later a Prius, became a scuba diver, got my private pilot's license including multi-engine and instrument ratings, and lived in the Cajun country of Louisiana for a few years. For 15 years I was the general manager for a food procesing company in Europe. I really enjoyed living in Europe. I'm now retired, and to quote from Martin Luther King, I'm finally "free at last, free at last." I've moved out to the wonderful high desert in the Southwestern city of El Paso, Texas USA.