| From Clovis it is on to Old Fort Sumner to get the photo of Billy the Kid’s headstone. It is obvious, this is one of the photos that was very easy to identify, not quite so easy to find. Again, using Kathy’s navigation system the voice had us going in circles in the small farms just east of the city of Fort Sumner. Until we snapped and realized we had not plugged in the address to the grave site of Billy the Kid (because we did not have that) but just to the city of Fort Sumner itself. Hungry and in need of a comfort stop we headed into town where we stopped at an Allsups, (which has now made me a chimichunga addict). While there we asked directions to the grave site and two giggling girls at the counter proceeded to give us directions. I was worried they were giving us bad directions on purpose due to their laughter, but they were the correct directions. Got the photo and headed into the little gift shop, where the man behind the counter had a great story of a photo on the wall of some depression era children sitting on and standing around Billy’s headstone. He said a brother and two sisters in the photo had come in some months back and had brought in the photo. How cool! They had come back to visit the location of that photo. |
