After a long hiatus, we are back on the road again for a couple of months! First stop, New Mexico! Silver City has become our "new favorite" town to visit. With our friends, Jed and Julie having moved here, it makes a good "excuse" for us to come here, but we've actually found that we really love this little town too. It's about a 5 hour drive, a little longer than I like Jack to do, but it's not a bad one for our first day out. We have found a great campground (Manzano's) that we've enjoyed staying at. The owners, John and Barbara are super nice and always host a BBQ of some sort on Saturday evenings which not only is the food great, but meeting all the other campers is such fun and interesting. We've already established a couple of favorite places we enjoy going to there, like the local coffee place called Tranquilbuzz and the Silver City Book Shop that no matter how many books we already have, Michael talks us into more!
Even thought we thought we had "seen it all" from out last trip, our friends managed to take us to a new place! We had the best, most unusual breakfast ever...a breakfast pizza! It was a pizza made with sauce, cheese, bacon and egg on a great pizza dough. I was skeptical, but boy was it good! Yum! The place was a hoot too! Even when you drove up to it, you went, hmm, wow! "Eclectic" was your first thought...it had a great garden attached to the side, so, of course, that's where I wandered off to before I even went inside. Got into a wonderful conversation with one of the owners. (she recommended the "killer Bloody Mary" which I took her up on!). We shared the challenge of relearning how to garden in the desert after living in So. Calif.
Whiskey Creek Zocalo is a bar, a restaurant, a garden, a picnic site, a music venue, et al. It has 9 acres that is still developing itself. One thing for sure, it has great food and interesting decor! We've added it to our places that we will return to when we come through here again. ;-)
After leaving our friends, our next stop was Albuquerque. It was just a short 2 night stop at a cute little RV Park called Enchanted Trails. We had been here before way back in 2018. It has a sweet little "Retro Area" that you can rent early style trailers. So cute. They have added a huge "Hub Cap Tree" in the middle of the campground that is really something too. Pretty cool. First morning here we were greeted with a spectacular sunrise. We didn't bother going anywhere as we have been to Albuq. before and just wanted to rest as the next drive was going to be a really long one heading to Colorado Springs.
This was a great way to start our "summer" trip!
...on the road, Marie
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