by kenny

We headed to Santa Fe via the historic Turquoise Trail, which was a beautiful drive. Along the way, we stopped at Tinkertown, which is amazing. Spend some time at this website. Ross Ward was a carver, artist, and all-around tinkerer that traveled the country as a carnival sign painter for years. Over 20 years ago he started a museum which now houses his carvings, paintings, diaromas, animatronics, collections, oddities, and a 35' foot sailboat named Theodora R. Theodora R was home to Fritz Damler for 10 years as he sailed the seven seas.

There is so much to see in the museum, you could spend a couple days looking at everything. I especially liked the circus side-show scenes, and Laura liked the hand painted signs with various sayings. Even the outside is cool, bordered with bottle walls and littered with artwork and sculpture.

Up the highway a bit is the BoneZone. Although it's filled with oddities, it was a disappointment compared to Tinkertown. It seemed more like a yard full of creepy trash. In all fairness though, there was no one home to show us around and we could only see what we could see from outside of the fence.