 Good morning from a truck stop in Alamagorda. Is that right? I think so. Okay. Alamagorda. Hey! We're in Mexico. You said we're in Mexico. New Mexico. Did I say Mexico? We're in New Mexico. We're in New Mexico. Not the old Mexico. Anyway, so about 24 to 30 hours ago, I posted a video doing a giveaway and Claire is going to pick five people to win one of the five postcards. So she's just going through the comments there. What are you looking for exactly, Miss Claire? You know, I don't... All right. Kind of a lot of pressure, obviously. Okay. So what... Oh, I see Claire D'Actil. That one wins. Okay. So you've got a winner already. So what we're going to do is I'll have her type out, copy and then paste. You won. Respond with your email address. I think that's the easiest way to do it for me. So go ahead. You want a ride reply? Internet's a little bit slow. We'll get back to you after the fifth one. Here are the cards that I picked out. These are from the visitor center at Big Bend. Also, I have the Carl's Bad over here and I have Guadalupe Mountains. Those I will announce in a future video. I'll try and space them out like a week. I know when I watch videos, sometimes I binge watch maybe like 7, 10, sometimes more videos. I want to space them out so people have an opportunity to win. And just to be clear, I am choosing the winners 24 hours after the video giveaway went up. However, this video won't be posted for another six days. So I'm choosing the winner within 24 hours, but it will be... And I'm commenting here as well within 24 hours, 30 hours. But then this video will be six days behind or so, because that's how I've been rolling right now. Do you have any tips for future postcard winners in the comments section? I don't know. I still don't even know how I'm doing this. Sorry, y'all. She's going by chronological order. We started at the bottom. Now we're going up to the top. Claire, why don't you just spin it and stop on one? No, you do it. Why? You got this. Two left, two left. You got this. Claire, why don't you close your eyes? And then go like this on the track pad and then stop. And then Claire Bear? Claire Actles having a little trouble. All right, I'm just going to spin it here just like Wheel of Fortune. All right, there we go. Roscoe Adam. Boom. Winner. I believe we got one more left. Flaming Storm. All right, there you go. Okay, now for lessons today, we're going to go over to the White Sands and possibly some Petroglyphs. Claire, why don't you just spin it and stop on one? No, you do it. Why? You got this. Two left, two left. You got this. Claire, why don't you close your eyes? And then go like this on the track pad and then stop. And then Claire Bear? Claire Actles having a little trouble. All right, I'm just going to spin it here just like Wheel of Fortune. All right, there we go. Roscoe Adam. Boom. Winner. I believe we got one more left. Flaming Storm. All right, there you go. Okay, now for lessons today, we're going to go over to the White Sands and possibly some Petroglyphs. This is the Three Rivers Petroglyphs site. There are over 21,400 Petroglyphs. I'll briefly go through what this is all about here. Three Rivers Petroglyphs are an outstanding examples of prehistoric Jordana, Magolan rock art. The Basaltic Ridge rising above the Three River valleys contains over 21,000 Petroglyphs, including masks, sunbursts, wildlife, handprints, and geometric designs. The number and concentration of Petroglyphs here makes us one of the largest and most interesting rock. Sorry, it's windy. Rock art sites in the Southwest. All right, so basically this is like the Mac Daddy Petroglyphs site. This is the place. There's two little trails. This is the first one, very short. The second one, quite longer. We'll begin on the short one. The first people came here 10,000 years ago and hunted bison, mammoths, and camels. Camels? Camels. American camels. That's quite crazy. 10,000 years ago is a long time ago. They have a warning to watch out for mesquite spines. Oh, interesting. Your favorite tree. Here we have a reconstructed home from 1,000 years ago. That was to keep warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Here we go. This is a home of a later period. They believe that the women were actually five feet tall. Clare Bear. My size. My people. Fun size. And the men were five foot four. Definitely a lot shorter than me. I don't know if this is original or reconstruction. It doesn't say. I'm going to guess that this was a reconstruction. It was concrete. I don't think Native Americans had concrete. Or their ancestors. I believe you are correct. So this is a Adobe service house. And what Clare was saying is that they would bury their dead ancestors under their own house. That's a little creepy. And then put the beds right on top of it because they didn't have beds. They just slept on the floor. For everybody who said I should get a dog. This is why I don't have a dog. Well, I'm kind of dirty too in the bus. And require a lot of attention. Just like a girlfriend. I kid you not. We were parked right here. About 50, what? 50 to 100 yards. But 100 yards, there is a right hand turn. Then you walk up here in other say 50 yards. And off to the right, there are our first petroglyphs. So I am very gingerly walking across these rocks to show you guys that is something. And here are more somethings. This looks like some kind of animal. Has four legs and a tail. And possibly horns. There is another one right here. There is going to be too many of these to show everything. But you get the idea. There are 21,400. I don't know how they exactly counted that. But here is another example. And there is another one over there on that rock. And that is a pretty clear distinct petroglyph. There is a bird right there. That is right. There is some kind of bird type figure here. Thunderbird. That is what they call it right? Yeah. Thunderbird. Thunderbird. And then there is like an aura looking thing. Yeah. There is tons basically. On that big rock up there. If you are into this stuff you are going to be like a kid in a candy store. This is super cool. Well, she is like a kid in a candy store. She is into this. That is what I look like before my haircut yesterday. No kidding. Let's check out how well preserved this is. This is on the information pamphlet. You can see the shape so I don't need to explain it. What was the significance of it? It is right there. Same rock. It says the circle and dot mode if is related to the coats of Quetzal. Quetzalcoatl. Uh huh. Other researchers suggest the dots represent corn or a population count. These early ancestors invented Pac-Man. Robots. Robots? It looks like a robot. Pac-Man is not a square. We are just pointing out an interesting find. What do we have here Claire? A three dimensional face. That is true. So on one side of it you see half of the face. But once you start to move and rotate towards the other side, the other hemisphere of the face is revealed along with... Mohawk. Something on the head. And the thing is they also use the rock's natural features to use it. There is a little bump right there and they use that for the eye. Right there. Eyeball. This is so cool. I mean there is literally weird climbing around very delicately, carefully. There is no other way to do it. But this whole area is just... Holy cow. Petroglyphists dream out here. Oh wow, look. Some kind of like goat, mountain goat. A bunch of the stuff you can't really tell what it is. I mean it's just everywhere. Yeah it really is just everywhere though. Everywhere you look. It's kind of on each rock. Yeah, at least. This one obviously broke off a bit just over the years. But look at these things. They're just... It's incredible that thousands of years later they're still very well preserved. And we're still on part one and two. They're still like... It's still got over a mile to go. Yeah. So here is another interesting feature, formation, piece of art. Then right next to it there is this very interesting geometrical design. Is that one on the list? No, but it says somewhere in here that there's like geometric shapes. Yeah. Which is weird because like nothing out here is geometric. So like they like just came up with this stuff. Yeah, that's true. Because there's nothing in nature that's geometric like that. So most of these are south facing. So if you do come across a fork in the road and you're walking up the hill veered to your left. There are just tons and dozens and hundreds of these beautiful, beautiful works of art. And they must have had an insane sunset out here way back in the day. And they probably admired all their art. I know it's too cold for snakes but being up here makes me nervous. Yeah? This is what snake homes look like. Next to the rest area which is like the midway point on the trail. And we came across a very, very large geometric shape. Very cool. And this area seems to be a home or something. You can see a bunch of droppings and pellets down there. Not quite sure what exactly it is. But I also feel like we've probably walked over a million or two million rattlesnakes. Hibernating because it is winter. Don't like rattlesnakes. All right, so we are stopping at the midway point. We're going to head towards White Sands for sunset. And we have to drop Claire off at the Greyhound bus station. Yeah. Yes, it is very sad. Claire has been an awesome bus buddy for the past, I don't know, a few weeks. So it's going to be a very sad goodbye but we will see each other at some point in the future. I really think sunset or sunrise would be the ultimate time to come here. Oh, by the way, this whole area is available for overnight campsites. We have the National Parks Pass, it's $3.50. I don't know how much it is without it. That's not much. She says it's like super cheap. Yeah, of five bucks or six bucks or seven bucks. How'd you rate this place on an archaeological scale? It's pretty dang cool. White Sands National Monument. And I can say it is pretty sandy out here. Look at the view. We just got here for this amazing sunset. And wow, all I got to say is wow. The amount of contrast out here at sunset is incredible. I've been here before in the daytime. Sunset or sunrise is much, much better, especially for photographs. Yeah, that's all I got to say is wow. I got the bus down there. I got the lights on. We're going to do a few photos. We've got Claire right here freezing her little buns off. So cold. I still got my crocodile hunter shorts on. It's a little nipply out here, to say the least. Woo. For goodness gracious, it is gorgeous. Wow. People seem to like you in the comments. They're lame, mom. All by myself now. No Aurea. No Claire. Who else is with me? I think that was the last three bus friends. Yeah, fantastic day. We will get on the road tomorrow. I have no idea where I'm going whatsoever. Well, I know where I'll be on the 5th of January. Like either Courtsite or Ehrenberg for the Schooley Palooza. Then the 11th is going to be the RTR. I know a lot of people have been asking if I'm going to be there. So yes, officially I will be there. If any of you guys are in the area and you want to stop by, or if you're in a, I don't know, within a couple hours, you want to come for, I don't know, a couple days, weekend, whatever. It is BLM land. You are free to be there. It is a massive event with lots of people, hundreds of people. Feel free. If you want to look it up, it's on Bob Wells' channel, CheapRV Living. Very informational channel, by the way, for anyone who's interested in a mobile lifestyle. Highly recommend it, along with the other similar channels. Yeah, that's about it. See you guys tomorrow.