Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category

Cowboy Days,Las Cruces Farm & Ranch Museum March 13 -14

As I stop to take a look at our amazing organ mountains, I know that whoever coined the saying “ride ‘em cowboy” undoubtedly came from our very own southwestern history; the same history that is being celebrated this weekend at an annual event known as “Cowboy Days”. This is the 12th annual celebration [...]

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White Sands Balloon Rally 2009

It was a good morning to be from Las Cruces, NM. There were things to do and places to see. The excitement began the night before when my wife and I discussed the possibility of taking our young Daughters, Kendra (8) and Kayla (7) to White Sands National Monument for the mass ascension [...]

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Saturday Trip - Silver City, NM

After a particularly hot and muggy couple of days, my husband and I decided to take a fun day trip to Silver City, NM, a quaint community of about 12,000 nestled in an exceptional place somewhere between the mountains and the desert. Silver City possesses all the benefits of a true small town; the traffic [...]

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