ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game

[Meryl]

Picture Butte, AB

[Lynne]

Ensenada, MEXICO...another town in Baja where one can get shrimp tacos and I can say I've been there

http://www.enjoyensenada.com/english/aboutensenada.jsp

"Known as the "Cinderella of the Pacific", Ensenada is located 70 miles south of the international border, a 90-minute drive from San Diego. Its warm Mediterranean climate, friendly atmosphere and accessibility by land, air, and sea have made Ensenada a favorite tourist destination for many years, and Mexico's second most-visited port-of-call for major cruise lines and pleasure boats.

Ensenada's romantic past, dynamic present, and promising future provide wide appeal for cultural visitors, vacationing families, and business travelers. With a variety of accommodations ranging from modern hotels with Old World charm to full-service resorts with convention centers to RV parks with complete amenities, Ensenada easily suits every taste or budget."

[belbbmfan]

Alhambra, Alberta

Named for the ancient fortress of the Moorish kings in Spain, Alhambra was founded in 1916 with the establishment of a post office at a new railway station of the same name. The hamlet is located west of Red Deer.

The Alhambra was so called because of its reddish walls (in Arabic, («qa'lat al-Hamra'» means Red Castle). It is located on top of the hill al-Sabika, on the left bank of the river Darro, to the west of the city of Granada and in front of the neighbourhoods of the Albaicin and of the Alcazaba.




One of the highlights is the Patio de los Leones (Court of the Lions) is an oblong court, 116 ft (35 m) in length by 66 ft (20 m) in breadth, surrounded by a low gallery supported on 124 white marble columns. A pavilion projects into the court at each extremity, with filigree walls and light domed roof, elaborately ornamented. The square is paved with coloured tiles, and the colonnade with white marble; while the walls are covered 5 ft (1.5 m) up from the ground with blue and yellow tiles, with a border above and below enamelled blue and gold. The columns supporting the roof and gallery are irregularly placed, with a view to artistic effect; and the general form of the piers, arches and pillars is most graceful. They are adorned by varieties of foliage, etc.; about each arch there is a large square of arabesques; and over the pillars is another square of exquisite filigree work.
In the centre of the court is the celebrated Fountain of Lions, a magnificent alabaster basin supported by the figures of twelve lions in white marble, not designed with sculptural accuracy, but as emblems of strength and courage. It has been said that the lions were most likely sculpted by members of the Caliphate's Christian community, as making such representational sculpture was not considered allowed by the followers of Islam. The twelve lions functioned as a clock with water flowing from a different lion each hour. The Christians of the Reconquest took apart the clock to see how it worked and it hasn't worked since.

[MaineWriter]

Alligator School House, TX

Sometime shortly after 1900, a town grew up around the schoolhouse. The origin of the school’s name has been lost to history, but it had to have been a colorful story.

During the Great Depression the town had the church, school, cemetery, and a few houses.

The school merged with the Kerens school but the church and cemetery remain.

The Long Prairie cemetery is the one closest to the former town – shown on the detailed TxDoT Navarro County map.

Leslie

[jpwagoneer1964]

Eagle Mountain, Tx

This 4 bedroom home in Eagle Mountain, Texas is offered @ $129,000. In sSan Diego it would be over half a million!

[belbbmfan]

New Norway, Alberta

This small, active farming community was named after Scandinavian settlers who homesteaded in the area. Visitor services include a campground and recreational facilities. The St. Thomas Duhamel Church Mission, built in 1883, stands as a reminder of the once flourishing Laboucane Settlement. New Norway is located southwest of Camrose.

[Ellemeno]

Yóstiro, Mexico

[MaineWriter]

Odds, TX

Odds had originally been called Buffalo Mott but was later renamed to avoid confusion with other Texas towns with the word Buffalo in the name. Odds, Kentucky is said to have been the source of the new name. We called Kentucky to see what we could find out there, but there's no listing for Odds. Perhaps the namesake has also become a ghost.

The area had been settled by a man named David Baron in 1854 and growth was rather slow. A store and post office were in operation in 1890 and by 1906 the post office was discontinued. Mail was later routed from Thornton, Texas.
   
By 1946 Odds had sixty citizens, one business, a school, and two churches. At one time Baptist and Methodist congregations shared a union church - the preachers saving souls on alternate Sundays.

Odds school had been in the Little Brazos School District before it was consolidated into the Groesbeck ISD in 1965. School consolidations nearly always drained the lifeblood of communities and the population in 1967 was reduced to only 20. With no school or businesses, Odds was a ghost by 1990.

Leslie

[belbbmfan]

Sputinow, Alberta

[jpwagoneer1964]

Wright, Wy