YES, we are still here in Santa Rosa, NM

It has been almost two weeks of waiting for the truck repairs. The Ford dealer is still telling us that repairs should be complete by Thursday or Friday. We are excited with the idea of continuing our trek to Oregon. While we are here we did some day tripin'. Here are some of the pictures.
Puerta de Luna, a very small town ten miles south of Santa Rosa, is the site of the Santa Rosa de Lima Chapel built in 1865.



Scuba diving in the desert? The Blue Hole is one of seven rare sink holes in Santa Rosa. Formed by water erosion and connected by a underground river, it has a year round temperature of 62 degrees. At 80 feet deep and 60 feet wide, it has a constant inflow of 3,000 gallons of fresh water a minute.



On a day trip, driving north, we saw many small rock structure ruins.



One stop was at Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge. All the lakes on the Refuge were completely dried up due to the three year drought.



We enjoyed a quiet secluded walk along the Gallinas Canyon.

We did get to the town of Las Vegas, but it wasn't in Nevada.

Montezuma Hot Springs

On another day trip we drove 45 miles south to Fort Sumner, NM. This towns claim to fame was Billy the Kid once called it home. He was shot through the heart at age 21 in July of 1881. As you can see his grave is now protected by a cage as well as secured by iron shackles since the grave monument was stolen and then recovered two different times.