June 24, 2010 Green Valley to Silver City, NM

Well gang, as promised we are back on the road. Get the women and children out of the streets!! It's been almost seven months since we've had any long term trailer livin'. We arrived in Silver City, NM at about noon, found ye old trailer park, unhooked, set up, ate lunch, and immediately got back into the SUV and headed for downtown. Silver City is an old mining town at 5900 feet above sea level, home to Billy The Kid, and Billy Casper who was a professional golfer years ago. We wanted to visit because it's known as an artist community with a couple of good antique stores. Another draw was the downtown architecture. Shortly after Silver City was founded the city fathers had the good sense to enact a building code that said all commercial buildings had to be build from adobe or brick. They avoided the catastrophic fires that plagued many other western towns. Consequently the downtown section is perfectly preserved. Many of the buildings are decorated in the art deco style, others are brightly colored. Our biggest treat of the day came from nature. On the drive over we commented several times on the beautiful cumulus clouds and that we could actually feel humidity. At dusk we were treated to a thunderstorm. We tried to remember the last time we had been rained upon and decided it was probably back in early April.

June 25,2010 After the rain last evening, we awoke to a perfectly clear blue sky and bright sunshine. Yes it supposed to be almost 90 degrees, but that beats the 109 that we left in Green Valley. In our travel brochures we found something that intrigues us. It's called City of Rocks and is located about 30 miles south of Silver City. It's not really a city with buildings but a grouping of huge boulders in an otherwise rock free landscape. The amazing thing is the theory on how the boulders got there. According to geologists a volcano erupted about 33 million years ago and threw these boulders to their present site. The volcano was located near the Albuquerque which is almost 200 miles away!!! The site is now a state park with a small campground for trailers, but there are also several tent camping sites located right next to the rocks. Some of them are very cool. This would be a good place to bring the whole family and camp for a few days.