DreamCatcher Inn de Las Cruces
Travel Blogs from Las Cruces
Here we are Hatch Chilies
... and it is such a amazing setting. I wish I could have a patio like this! This morning, we awoke early and left Albuquerque to drive down to Las Cruces. Our main purpose to go to Hatch, NM because this is where the famous Hatch chilies are grown. We could have gotten them in Albuquerque, but we wanted to see the fields. What we saw the most of was pecan trees. Thousands and ...
Space and Sand
... shelters provided and families can sled down the sand dunes. We drove on to Las Cruces NM for the night and had dinner at a delightful restaurant on the old plaza square in Mesilla. The drive to Las Cruces went through San Augustin Pass with snow on both sides of the road and when we got down to 4800 ft elevation it was still cold. So much for southern New Mexico's balmy ...
Preparing to Go
... via Chicago and New York arriving in Barcelona at 8:40am.
Right now I can't say what we will do. We plan to get checked into our hotel and maybe take a short nap then start looking around. Our hotel is not close to anything but the hotel does offer a free shuttle to the downtown area. I imagine at some point we will do a bit of exploring. Honestly I have to admit to being a bit nervous ...
Sand Boarding in the Dunes
... gypsum dune field. We first stopped at the Visitor’s Centre where we bought a sand board (a big round plastic tray we could slide down the dunes on). As Chris was still slightly suffering with heels and didn’t want to get sand in the cracks he decided not to do any sand boarding – so Annabelle and Gary went halves on a board and started limbering up for some hard core boarding.
When we arrived at the parking spot ...
Neděle 20.9.2009
... Radka a uvažuju, jestli stojí za to koupit v návštěvnickým středisku tričko s nápisem „I need my space“.
Odtud se vracíme přes Magdalenu na dálnici a pokračujeme na jihovýchod. Někde vpravo od nás míjíme Trinity Site (místo odpalu první atomové bomby v r. 1945) i údolí ohňů (Valley of Fires – lávové pole černých vyvřelin). Jedeme dál až za Alamogordo, kde na nás v ...