Crossing Texas...

Traveling I-10 across Texas is miles and miles of more miles. We stopped at Fort Stockton which is about the only place to stop between San Antonio and El Paso and stayed at Fort Stockton RV Park. There are actually at least four campgrounds there but this one has cable (for Madame Secretary and The Good Wife) and a cafe!  They also have some resident kitties who are cute as anything - Sampson, Delilah and Little Pepper. I was temped to take one home with me...except for the fact of a litter box in an RV!

 Sampson on the left. Delilah on the right. Little Pepper peeking out of the box

The cafe is the Road Runner Cafe, open for breakfast and dinner and we tried both. The dinner menu is limited to about five entrees but the prices are very reasonable and the food quite good. The entree is served with mashed potatoes and gravy (brown or white), Italian Green Beans (very good and I don't much care for green beans), a homemade biscuit, and ice cream for dessert - all for about $8.95. Breakfast was similar. The biscuits served with both meals are out of this world good!

We left Fort Stockton and traveled to the Texas/New Mexico border, where we crossed into the Mountain Time Zone. We  stopped at El Paso West RV Park in the little town of Anthony...which straddles the border and is half way between El Paso and Las Cruces. Campsites are smallish, but we fit into a pull-thru with no problem and the price was very reasonable. Their cable was not working when we arrived but we got several digital channels over the air and I was able to get my weekly dose of NCIS as well as enjoy the sunset.

We were about fifty miles from the White Sands Missile Range and Museum and decided to visit. Well...turns out Veteran's Day (a Federal holiday) is not a good time to visit a Federal military base! We felt so dumb!

 Seen on the road to White Sands...

We visited Old Mesilla on the way back. It's an historical community in Las Cruces with homes, shops, and restaurants in old adobe buildings from the nineteenth century. There's a Billy the Kid gift shop in the building that housed the court house at the time of Billy the Kid's trial.

We had lunch in La Posta de Mesilla...it's in a beautiful old building from the 1840s and has been in business since 1939. I loved the decor and the food was good. So we had a nice afternoon in spite of our White sands error!

Some photos of the interior...

Aviary at the entrance

I loved the look and feel of New Mexico when we were in Albuquerque last year and I feel the same way about the southern regions.

Next stop is Tombstone, Arizona.