"Abduction" photos were taken for those that wanted them - of the car and occupants being sucked up into the mother ship.

The parking lot was smaller than we're used to but more public. A large tent was available for shade with girl scouts selling cookies and cool drinks.

It was pretty hot, some think hotter than usual. The shade was most welcome. We had a good turnout although I didn't get a count. My camera was also not working that day (user error, I think, and not a dead battery as I thought then) so I did a pretty poor job of documenting everything - although we did run the web cams all day.

There were many, many photos taken by others with better cameras and skills than I have, and I think these will wind up online - I will post links as I have them.

Around 3pm everyone packed up and got ready to move out for the parade. I really appreciated that Earl got us neatly lined up to depart - with so many cars in such a small area, it could have been total chaos. It took a while for the police to be ready for us, but once they were we moved out smartly on to the road.

This year we paraded up one side of Main and straight to the hotel rather than going in a circle. We didn't have very many townies out to see us this time, I'm not sure why. There were posters all over town for our event, and in past years there have been lots of folks out to see us.

We went to Carlsbad Caverns with several Eastern Caravaneers.

We're waiting in Amarillo until the Central caravan arrives around lunchtime, and plan to head out to Roswell with them in the afternoon.

Yesterday we met up with three more bugs: BJ, John and M. in Rodney (sadly, Electra didn't make it), and Ollie in Felix. They joined us in the morning in Sevierville after driving all night.

In West Memphis, AR we met up with Stephanie and Steph in Phoebe.

This morning we'll be joined by another bug... then maybe a couple more on down the road a ways...

During the night a pair of green magnets have appeared on spacepod's roof. They are very familiar. They say, "Eastern Caravan Leader".

I think this means that the northern caravan contingent arrived during the night.

We plan to leave Durham around 11am. We'll be making a stop at lunch to drop off our dog so expect the web cams to halt for a while around that time.

We may have a signal outage somewhere in the mountains after Asheville.