On February 23, Sandy and I first saw Silver City, NM. We were escaping snow in Mancos and we headed straight south on Monday, Feb. 22. We got as far as Truth or Consequences, NM, where it was snowing! The next morning, we set off across Emory Pass, which had about four inches of fresh snow on it, and headed into Silver City, where the fresh snow was already melting on the grass of lawns that already had some green underneath.
It's almost exactly a year now, and we went back across Emory Pass Saturday, but not in snow. We went to "Historic Forts Day" at the El Camino Real International Heritage Center, on I-25 south of Socorro, to see our friends at the Fort Bayard exhibits. Though there's still a little snow under the trees on north-facing slopes in the upper elevations of the Black Range, it was a sunny day on dry roads.
On the way back, we took a little side-trip into the old mining town of Kingston, NM. We had stopped in, and thoroughly enjoyed, Hillsboro, NM, on our first trip through the area a year ago, so this time we toured Kingston. It nestles in a little valley about five miles east of where the bottom panoramic late afternoon view from Emory Pass was taken. It apparently had a "colorful" past, hinted at by Virtue Street, and we'll have to return and explore it further.
The bell was cast in 1887 and has been used to alert Kingston residents ever since.
Today, we went to Las Cruces. I enticed Sandy by saying we'd lunch at P.F. Chang's. It wasn't till we got there that we realized we lunched at P.F. Chang's in El Paso, not Las Cruces. So, we went to Red Lobster instead!
Mall-crawled before lunch, hit Kohl's and Hobby Lobby afterward. On the way back, the officer at the Border Patrol stop on I-10 west of Las Cruces just wished us well as he waved us through ... no questions. Don't quite know how I feel about being obviously harmless! tv
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