After leaving Tuscon we just headed east on I-10. Pretty uninteresting, alot of wind and the coach drove straight and true. “Nice” experience – another concern to check off the worry list. Spent a couple of days in Mesilla, just south of Las Cruces.
A nice little Mexican plaza and church, lots of cute shops and a great Mexican restaurant – Andele. Get the green chile enchiladas! Authentic.
We saw a little open air shop along a main road with bunches of red chilies hanging all around the outside of the store. We pulled in, not knowing what to expect, but, oh my, strangest place we’ve ever been! With no fixed walls and the wind blowing through there was lots of clanking chimes, plenty of dusty, “stuff”. Hard to describe, but many seasons of caked on dust on everything they had to sell: black Indian pottery, some gems, old curled up post cards, honey, and dirty chilies. There were 3 guys in the shop, with as much evident age and dirty, dusty skin as the desert around them, plus eyes that shown through to their hard living. Scary looking at first but more a result of their environment.
There is nothing between NM and San Antonio. Nothing. Brutally boring and monotonous. Nice RV resort there for a couple of days. We were able to go to one of the Spanish missions, San Juan and have the following photos to share.
