Friends in Las Cruces and a Rest Day in Tucson

After leaving Van Horn on Sunday, we passed through the nightmare traffic and construction of El Paso. I wish I could post some pics of the highway snarl, but had to focus on driving instead of sightseeing.

A few miles north of town, we crossed over into New Mexico.

Old friends Ted and Phyllis have been staying in Las Cruces for a week or so, and we decided to take a day to visit with them. We stayed at Hacienda RV Resort, site 127, and it was as expected from previous visits. The interior roads are paved but the sites are covered with a very fine gravel that gets into everything! The park is very near the interstate highway, so noise is a bit of an issue here, but overall it is a nice park.

The remnants of Hurricane Rosa hung over the mountains to the northeast, and even dropped a sprinkle or two of rain on Las Cruces.

We spent a great deal of time catching up on current happenings with our friends, but managed to squeeze in a couple of fantastic dinners at the Double Eagle in old town Mesilla. On our first visit, we indulged in a fancy steak dinner in the Double Eagle side of the restaurant. We've not tried that before, and found the food to be extraordinary! Both Donna and I had small fillets, aged in house to perfection, and prepared exactly as we ordered. With the dinner we ordered mushrooms, cheese stuffed chili rellenos, and Pesole soup. Delicious!

On Monday we returned to dine at the Peppers side of the Double Eagle, with a New Mexican style menu. That means lots of Hatch chilis! This time we ate in the more casual center courtyard of the 150 year old home.

This time it was seafood stuffed chili rellenos for D and I along with delicious salsa. Everything is made in house and is wonderful.

Continuing our run west, we were back on the road Tuesday morning, and two hundred sixty odd miles later rolled into Tucson, Arizona. The western New Mexico and eastern Arizona terrain is much the same.....flat!

Being the off-season, we were able to score a discounted rv site at our old friend, Rincon Country West. The pull through, patio sites come with a hefty premium between November and April, but we got a nice one for $30 a night!

The park is nearly deserted right now, but the hustle and bustle will begin in a few weeks.

We don't have plans to return to Tucson in the winter as we have done for several years, so it's been nice to roll into a familiar place, relax, do a bit of shopping and such before we make our next move. Next stop: Quartzsite, AZ, then Banning, CA, then SoCal for a few days to visit my Mom and Sister, then home to NorCal.

It's been an interesting summer, and I will update soon.