Today we visited Chamizal National Memorial which memorializes the peaceful resolution of the Chamizal boundary dispute:

The ambassador’s ring used to seal the agreement:

The kids completed their Junior Ranger workbooks and received their badges and patches:

On our way, we drove right next to the border fence:

Our next stop was the National Border Patrol Museum:

A low-risk border patrol job:

Temporary border patrol tower:

This ultralight trike was seized after being used for drug smuggling:

The cart on the floor was used to ride between the concrete I-beam rails under the border bridge to smuggle over the fence.  See the photo on the easel for how they found it.  The boat was welded together from a pair of car hoods and used to cross the Rio Grande.  The boat in the corner was used to row aliens from Cuba to Florida:

Stretch motorcycle to bring groups of aliens over the border:

This diorama depicts the tracking and capture of illegal aliens:

We drove north, crossing into New Mexico and filling up our propane.  We then continued on to Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument, a National Monument administered by the BLM (as opposed to NPS), established in 2014:

The kids completed their Junior Ranger workbooks and received their pins:

The views from the trail next to the visitor center:

We headed west, stopping to use the RV dump station at a gas station in Deming, NM:

Continuing west, we found we were loosing pressure in a tire and discovered we had run over a nail.  We switched out the damaged tire and continued on:

We finally stopped to overnight at the Walmart of Globe, AZ.  See the trip map for today’s drive and our current location.