Las Cruces, New Mexico area

We explored some of this area, and met Aunt Mary's youngest daughter, Jodie and her husband Kevin for dinner last night.  Yesterday we went to Hatch, a small town known for it's Chili Peppers.  We're leaving today, and plan to see a couple more sites in NM before leaving the state.

we took a back road from Las Cruces to Hatch, and went thru a border patrol check...new experience

the ladies stringing the peppers in to ristras, strings of chiles

the Rio Grande River

Kevin, Jodie, Steve and I..we had dinner at La Posta in Mesilla..a very historic area