Tinkertown

This museum can pretty much speak for itself. It was one of the most random eclectic places I have ever been. In the 1960's this man began carving as a hobby a western town. Eventually it became this place. We stopped by on our drive behind the Sandia and Manzano mountains this past Saturday. We enjoyed our drive so much we didn't take any pictures :( But it was beautiful all the same. We'll be heading back to a lot of those places for sure because there are some good trails we discovered. Anyway, back to the museum:

Hello random wagon wheels and walls made of bottles and cement...

This was the man's shop where he carved everything. He had a quote that said "I did all this while you were watching TV"...sad but probably true.

Here is an example of part of the western town. There was also a hotel, a bar, an Indian trading post, a restaurant, a toy shop, a drug store, and probably one or two other things that I can't remember.

He had a bunch of random collections throughout the museum. He carved almost all of the characters in the scenes you see in the pictures and there were a ton more that we didn’t take a picture of. The museum had a yacht that had taken ten years to travel all around the world. The display included the log of the travels and a world map with key events and where they took place pinned. There was display of wedding cake toppers. One of them were two fleas that were dressed...who thinks of stuff like that?? There was a huge display of a circus, lots of random carnival type things that you put a quarter in and it tells you your strength, a fortune teller woman, and a one man band. There was a collection of dolls that this brother and sister had collected on their way around the world. Random neat stuff. This was part of the sword collection.

Cool place. Fun day as always!