Elephant Butte, New Mexico-November 19, 2011

Jerry has called this city Elephant Butt all day long. I just can't handle staying at a Butt. It does end in "e"! Butte. It is very close to Truth or Consequences. It is fortunately off the beaten path in a town of 7000 people at about 4000 ft in elevation. So far so good. But the wind is blowing terribly hard and has for most of the day. That's why we stopped early. We have not even put out our left side slides yet because of the wind. The terrain between Albuquerque and here is hard to describe because I can't choose which word is more accurate: drab, brown, boring, barren, uninhabitable. You choose which you prefer because it is actually all of them. It is not fit for rocks, much less humans. How sad. However, around this little city there is so much history rich with silver mining. We had planned to stay here only 2 days but we may have to stay a few days longer just to see it all, or at least part of it. As we typcially do, we take Sunday off. So, tomorrow will be a day of rest for us. I hope it is for you, too. Monday will either begin our adventure in this area or we will be on the move again. We reach a point in Las Cruces where we have to go east through El Paso and on into Texas or go east and head toward Tuscon, AZ. We enjoyed AZ so much farther north that we may go east. We'll see which way we are lead.