Well, its time to leave our friends at Tucson and head out on the next leg of our journey. After 6 hours of uneventful driving we get to La Hacienda RV resort in Las Cruces. Its a beautiful park and the adobe buildings are lovely.
Although the sites are narrow, they are separated by hedges and shrubs and are very private. The day we arrived was so windy that you may notice the table is upside down with the barbecue sitting on it to keep it from flying away.
The grounds are well manicured and all kinds of private spots are located around the grounds. This is a very nice place to spend a few days.
Just down the road from our RV park is the old town of Mesilla. It is a national historic site and most of the buildings date back to the mid 1800's. This is the town that Billy the Kid hung out in and is where he was captured and sentenced to hang. The building behind Carmen is where court was held to convict him and where his jail cell was. He escaped by convincing a deputy he needed to answer natures call. A gun was hidden in the outhouse by an accomplice and he ended up killing the deputy and the sheriff to escape.
As is the case with most historic sites, they are kept alive by tourists and all the old buildings are occupied by shops selling everything from trinkets to Indian crafts. The area is very well maintained and the old buildings look like they could last another 150 years.
A bit farther down the road is the Rio Grande river which flows down from northern New Mexico and is the border between Texas and Mexico as it flows to the gulf of Mexico. Apparently this is irrigation season so dams upstream are opened to let water downstream for irrigation. At other times of the year the river is just a mud flats. Right now it is running so fast I doubt someone could swim across it. And I mean a swimmer, not me.
At the end of our first day here we looked out our window as dusk was settling in and saw a number of quail on the street outside our site. Eventually there were over a dozen but the light dropped so our photos weren't any good. These are the most quail we've seen yet on our trip.
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