Graham Central Station, Las Cruces, NM
Graham’s Central Station http://www.grahamcentralstationlascruces.com/clubs.html 505 South Main Street Las Cruces, NM 88001 505-524-9131 After dinner, we headed off for some dancing at a 4 room bar called “Graham’s Central Station”, which unfortunately had all the music I don’t really care for in all four rooms. Country and Western in the main room, hip hop in [...]
iAndele! Mexican Restaurant (Old Mesilla, NM)
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iAndele!Authentic Mexican Food in Historic Old Mesilla2184 Avenida de Mesilla 505.526.9631Me, Liz, and Claire went through the hidden passage to the back patio courtyard for some lunch. Good assortment of salsas to go with our chips, I ordered a margarita – but it was different than the average margarita – not made with tequila, but [...]
Stahmann’s Pecans (Mesilla, NM)
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A definite stopoff on the I-10 corridor through New Mexico by Las Cruces …. Stahmanns Country Store on the Historic Old Mesilla plaza www.stahmanns.com (505)528-6840 Of course exploring around the Old Historic Mesilla plaza, had to stop by and visit the famous Stahmann’s Pecan orchard country store – one of the only two retail outlets [...]
Manitou Cliff Dwellings (Manitou Springs, Colorado)
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Manitou Cliff DwellingsManitou, Colorado – At the Foot of Pikes Peak 719-685-5242 / 800-354-9971 http://www.cliffdwellingsmuseum.com/P.O. Box 272, Manitou Springs, Colorado 80829 A private sector owned cliff dwellings and museum preserved under a red sandstone overhang, is an authentic Anasazi cliff dwelling that was built over 700 years ago. (1200 BC – AD 1300) Next to [...]
Pecos Ruins, New Mexico
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Pueblo Ruins National Historical ParkPueblo, New Mexico (505) 757-6414×1www.nps.gov/pecoPecos National Historical Park P. O. Box 418Pecos, NM 87552 This awesome National Historical Park preserves 12,000 years of North and Central American History with its famous “Ruins” site and museum that saves the ancient Pueblo of Pecos, two Spanish Colonial Missions, Santa Fe Trail sites, 20th [...]
Abandoned Missle Silos outside Roswell, New Mexico
Just roughly a block north of the Roswell UFO Crash site is an abandoned missile silo I have yet to explore. But very similar to the ones I explored thoroughly in Junior High and High School. We used to climb down the stairs into the multiple levels and play standing in awe at the immense [...]
Photo and journal entry from visiting the Roswell UFO Crash Site … (Roswell, NM)
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Tuesday, 30 August 2005 Roswell, New Mexico After Bottomless Lakes State Park, me and my sister tried to check out the Alien Resistance headquarters to see what it was all about, but it was closed. I dropped her off at home and headed out on Hwy 285 North. Enroute, I stopped at the Capital Mexican [...]
Bottomless Lakes State Park (Roswell, NM)
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Tuesday, 30 August 2005 – Part I Roswell, New Mexico Bottomless Lakes State ParkRoswell, New MexicoBordered by High Red Bluffs the seven small lakes at the park were formed when circulating water dissolved gypsum and salt deposits in underlying rock formations creating a network of underground cavities. The roofs of some of those caverns collapsed [...]
The Golden Pass, Switzerland
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The journey from Interlaken to Lucerne is very, very scenic. Green fields ring with the sound of cowbells unexpectedly, mountains stand on the edges of lakes, casting perfect reflections. The Golden Pass is just awesome. A small village stands on the banks of Lake Thun, and a winding road follows the edge of the lake, [...]
Gimmelwald
Last year, while travelling in Switzerland, my travel companion and I reached the high, hillside town of Murren late in the afternoon.. must have been 4.30 p.m. or so. The fog had cleared up considerably in Murren to we could see a bit more of it. Anyway it turned out that accommodation was way too [...]