We are still in New Braunfels, Texas, and will be here for the next month or so until all the RV and human repairs are complete ... nothing serious for either but a necessary annual checkup and tone up.
I did want to mention a little town we spent a day in on the way and that is Mesilla, New Mexico. Just south of IH 10 and the center of Las Cruces is the original stage coach town of Mesilla. This is the history of the southwest and it hasn't changed much in over a 150 years or so. Here is the courthouse where Billy the Kid was sentenced to be hanged ... but a sheriff named Pat Garret saved the taxpayers the effort a couple of years later by shooting him in the back.
The Mighty Rio Grand River ... where you might get your shoes only slightly wet while crossing.
One of the back streets of Mesilla ... but very typical of the kind of places just off the main streets.
And the first brick building in New Mexico.
And if you can blow this up to read it ... a facinating story about the building and Mesilla in general.
The church which dominates the main square of Mesilla ... very tipically 1870s.
Mesilla, New Mexico was a really neat little place just off the beaten path, but so typical for the history that happened here not that many years ago.
