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Day 30: Wed Aug 20, 1997

 After reading awhile, checked email in the morning. Still getting the junk mail from some place called Noise Control. I've been sent hundreds of copies of the same exact message, about every 30 minutes since Sunday a week ago. They won't stop, I've asked a number of times. So for now I just delete the garbage. Emailed Peggy Gaudy to tell her we would not be able to visit this time. I had just told her a few days before we were planning on passing by her way. She invited us to stay at her place and we really wanted to visit her. She is an archeologist for the Bureau of Land Management in Farmington, New Mexico. We met her by email about 3 years ago and spent a very pleasant day with her last trip to the area. We were looking forward to seeing her but after checking the map and calendar I saw any visit would be too rushed so we postponed. By the time we were ready to leave the motel it was 11:00 am MDT. I was thinking it was earlier because I forgot we were in New Mexico, Arizona time is the same as California. We headed for Albuquerque. I had checked the web and found a possible place to eat. On our way to it we passed an Indian place and ate there instead. Then we picked up I-25 south to Las Cruces.

Organ Mountains as seen from the Las Cruces side.

At Las Cruces we took Rt. 70 across San Augustin Pass (Where Pat Garret was shot in the back, he shot Billy the Kid (supposedly)) and across the Tularosa Valley to Alamogordo. We took a brief partial tour of the town then got a room at Motel 6 and went to Margo's to eat. We had eaten at Margo's mexican restaurant many times when we lived in the area, this was a new location, right across the street (First Street) from the Auto Shop, a garage owned by some friends of ours, the Efirds. After Margo's we drove up Tenth Street, the main shopping area, and found Hastings still open. Hastings is a large book and music store, I got a music CD rom and a new atlas of New Mexico there. The atlas is made by Benchmark Maps and shows roads on a shaded relief background, best state atlas I've seen so far. Then back to the room.

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