April 13, 2016 From Arizona to New Mexico

After saying our “See You Laters” to Sue, Bruce, Mary and Mike, we hooked up and headed east toward the Dragoon Mountains:

Always loved these rocks – part of the Little Dragoon Mountains:

Past “The Thing”:

And thru eastern Arizona – the desert is so green:

Into New Mexico:

And the beautiful scenery continues:

What stories this house could tell:

So many signs advertising all the things you can’t live without:

Coming into Las Cruces:

The mountains are called the Organ Mountains.  Some of those peaks are over 8000’ – pretty impressive, aren’t they:

Oh my, we are going up and over:

Wouldn’t you love to see this view every day from your back porch?:

Space Murals:

And we are going up:

At the top of the pass:

And down to the Tularosa Basin where the White Sands Missile Range is located:

The White Sands Missile Range:

Continuing down into the Tularosa Basin:

We have done this drive from the east to the west a few times.  This is the first time that we did the west to the east – just beautiful.

Here is White Sands National Monument (we toured the Monument in 2013 – here is the link to that blog: http://thehitzels.blogspot.com/2013/04/april-14-2013-white-sands-national.html)

Into Alamogordo – this is our view:

We settled in at the local Elks lodge – $15.00 for full hookups.  We thought they were serving a meal tonight but it was ladies night.  Sounded good to me but it was a dress up affair – not today!

The scenery and weather was incredible today.  Hope that continues on our way.  We continue our journeys tomorrow so stay tuned and enjoy today.

Stats for today:

Miles Traveled: 297 Miles

Routes Traveled:

Arizona: SR-80; I-10

New Mexico: I-10; US-70; Panorama Blvd; Hamilton Road