Americas Best Value Inn Las Cruces

We stayed at Bonnie and Sal's on Saturday and Sunday night. We had a great time, and hope that they will come to Michigan this summer. Bonnie is still the same, we laughed a lot. Salvador is a lot of fun, we drank beer and talked a bunch. They have such a nice house, Salvador has done a lot of work on it.

Z Magdaleny vyjíždíme dopoledne k jedinýmu důvodu, proč jsme do týhle díry zavítali a tím je Very Large Array pár mil odtud. Zařízení 27 obřích teleskopů, který poslouchají, co se kolem nás ve vesmíru šustne. Každej má v průměru 21 m, takže tihle drobečkové jsou vidět na míle daleko. Bohužel, co vidět není, je cesta k nim. Musí se totiž směrem od Magdaleny odbočit doleva na ...

... just kept getting darker and darker and the lightning started getting closer. So I hightailed it down the road to Las Cruces where I am spending the night.

Tomorrow I will be on my way to Albuquerque, NM. Not exactly what I had originally planned. But I am a little ahead of schedule and decided to alter my route.

Tune in again tomorrow night for the latest in my (mis)adventures.

Today I got my passport at the post office,it took us an hour to sign everything,the lady said in two weeks it would come but I got lucky and got it a week earlier,so mom worked another week then we started are trip first we went to Tuscon then California and then up to the mountains,any way it was fun but not fun getting pushed in with all the luggage next to me and almost hitting me in the head (we were going to Canada but we didn't have time). 

... about 90 entrants participate in a balloon race across this desert. Holloman Air Force Base - Home of the most advanced fighter jet in the USAF, the F-22 Raptor and the F-117A Stealth bomber. Old Mesilla - A restored town close to Las Cruces that was famous for the characters passing through it. The saloon walls are plastered with "WANTED Dead or Alive" posters of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid (plus several others) and a couple more offering $10,000 ...

... in your expense report? For dinner we decided to meet two other co-workers, Jim and Ken, at Old Mesilla. This section of Las Cruces was founded around 1500s by Mexican colonists. Billy the Kid was sentenced to death at the county courthouse here. The most prominent structure in Mesilla was San Albino Church. Interesting note...in front of the church there was a statue ...

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This reserve is the biggest reserve of white sand dune in the world, that's very nice, very peaceful, very instructive also coz the presentation flyer teach about the different types of dunes you can see over there and the wild life present.

... forget the feeling of it. Today's drive was really a short one, as we were quite close to our stopping point when I took over the wheel. So - that was my excitement for the day! New Mexico does a nice job with creating "highway art" - bridges and abutments with southwestern colors and designs. (Nature's ever-changing art - geology, skies, and cloud formations - is enough to keep me snapping pictures most of the time!)

... and Pancho Villa. We walk around town, then head south on the 4 lane Route 25. Pecan groves give way to cow farms lining the highway. These are huge farming operations. Our cow pastures have grass, these are dirt and cow droppings. Cows aren't chomping on grass, since there isn't a growing blade in the fenced in barren pastures. Instead a truck drives along the fence and shoots out feed. Car-sized ...