(Carrizozo NM) Last year I passed through Carrizozo in order to visit the lava flows at Valley of Fires. Since then, I learned from a friend that there were art galleries and some bodacious burros I missed. Since it was on the route to a couple of other places I wanted to see, another visit […]
(nr San Antonio NM) Went to see the Fort Craig National Historic Site where the fort was built along the Jornada del Muerto portion of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro in 1854. Part of the fort’s mission was to protect travelers along the trade route. It was also intended to prevent Apache and Navajo […]
(nr San Antonio NM) Went to see the El Camino Real International Heritage Center. They had artifacts, photographs, documents and research tracing the history and importance of the trade route that was used for centuries by natives, latinos and gringos. There was a museum, gift shop, and patio with views of the Jornada del Muerto […]