Leaving Carlsbad on our way to Las Cruces, the road took us back into Texas through the Guadalupe Mountains National Park. We stopped at the Visitor's Center, had a quick look around and continued the drive through these picturesque mountains.
Bud (Jim's cousin) and his wife, Gretha Nelson, have escaped the cold winters from Stoughton, WI to the warmer climate of Las Cruces, NM for the past 6 years. This year, they are renting a house for a month with their friends, Arne and Ada from New York. We stayed in an RV Park about 6 miles from them and enjoyed their company,a lot of laughs and stories, good cooking, and tour services during our stay.
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| Jim, Gretha, and Bud at the La Cruces Saturday Market. Coffee and Kettle Corn...yum. |
One highlight of our time in Las Cruces was a hike in the beautiful Organ Mountains to Dripping Springs. We hiked about 1 1/2 miles from the Visitor's Center to the ruins of the Desert Springs Resort which was a popular destination around the turn of the century. It had 16 rooms, a large dining room and concert hall. After the resort went bankrupt, a wealthy doctor bought it and converted it into a sanatorium after his wife had contracted tuberculosis. As late as 1946, the Resort was still in relatively good shape, but the efforts of local preservationists failed to raise the money to buy it and the Resort was scavenged for building materials. The property is now owned by the Bureau of Land management.
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| Organ Mountains |
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| Lookie! There's the spring! |
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| Dripping Springs Resort |
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| Good place to recover from TB. |
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| Uff-da, Hard to keep up with this Norwegian! |
On our way to our hike, we stopped to pick up a picnic lunch at the Deli and saw these two musicians on the street corner.
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| Let's Polka!!! |
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