Full day

Yesterday Loren and I had a full day of exploring at three different sites. Because we covered so much ground I am going to break the day into three separate blogs. We began the day heading north out of Elephant Butte looking for the 'Rock House'. Very little information was found out about this house and we are still searching the net to find it's history. 

When we found the Rock House we were surprised to see it was a one room structure with an attached garage.

More than strange, but we believe the house must have been built after the 20's when the car started gaining widespread usage.

The house sits on a point of land with a box canyon to the west.

Another view of the canyon.

To the east and somewhere in those trees is the Rio Grande river.

The trees give evidence to the only water in the area.

The road we came in on.

Allstate insurance men were all over the place.

   

Here is another one watching me watch him.

This is the view from the cabin. Nice site selection.

(first attempt at video, be gentle)

After the 20 mile round trip to the cabin we decided it was time for some lunch so we stopped  at a little truck stop that had seen better days, but that had a reputation for a great hamburger.

Part of the restaurant was in a converted railroad car. 

And the hamburger deserved its reputation.

 Our next stop was Fort Craig which we'll talk about tomorrow. For the rest of the day here it looks like we will be dodging the wind which has already hit 26 miles per hour. We will still figure out a way to enjoy the good life though.