From Roswell to Silver City

What a nice view to start the day VERY early: with a beautiful sunrise in "Roswell". We left early this morning our night place at Wal Mart parking lot

I did'nt know that New Mexico is such a beautiful and colorful state. The landscape changes were very overwhelming for me! Do you see the black mountains in the back ground? That's where we have to go.

Coming closer to those mountains, the landscape was changing again to black rolling hills with very yellow grass to the left and to the right of the street.

And then it was going down hill into the darker, almost black mountains....

and there opend up a wide yellow valley in front of us with a very rich vegetation.

It's spring time already in the valley!

We were on the scenic byway of "Billy the Kid" in the "Mescalero Apache Reservation" and the mountains changed from black to green, very similar to the North Carolina mountains.

Horses in "Hondo"

Apache Casinos on the route to "Ruidoso"

And this was the biggest and most wonderful view I ever have seen in my life! The way down to "Tularosa" in the valley. That white stripe are the "White Sands" and behind the high mountains of "San Andreas" with a peak of 8241 feet! I will never forget this magnificent view anymore!

Arrived down in "Alamogordo" we stopped at a Pistachio farm and bought some of these delicious nuts - and for me a nice shirt with pretty Indian designs!

These are pistachio trees and in the back you can see the "White Sands".

We took the road #70 from "Alamogordo" to "Las Cruces" driving very close by the "White Sands" and the "Missile Range" area, where the U.S. Army is testing their missiles. There was also a spot where the Space Shuttle will land if the weather is to bad in Florida.

A pretty scene with the "White Sands"

The Yuccas are blooming now!

I guess this picture belongs to the city scene of "Alamogordo", coming into town. I have seen so many beautiful scenes on our way until today, sometimes I'm mixing up the photos, sorry for that! :)

After passing the "White Sands" we had to drive into the high mountains again. Our RV had to "work" hard on those steep hills.

And on the other site was opening up a beautiful wide desert aeria with such a strong (!!) wind and there were everywhere starting small sand storms to see - not something that we needed just now!

This is the train on the way to "Deming"

Big ranches, a lot of cows and a big sand storm was coming up. We were hoping to make it trough without any problems - and we did. In "Deming" we took the road #180 towards "Silver City", a town way up in the hills. Happily, we left the storm behind us.

Desert impressions

Beautiful scenery on our way to Silver City

We arrived in "Silver City" and we have found a nice RV-Campground with the name "Rose Valley RV Ranch" and decided to stay here for two nights and to explore this city. Tomorrow I will show you some photos from this very photogenic little town. Stay tuned!

Silver City
is a vibrant community in Grant County, New Mexico, nestled alongside more than 3 million acres of the Gila Wilderness. With historic ties to mining, ranching and agriculture, our community has grown into a modern town with friendly people, growing businesses and a terrific year-round climate.


Susanne and David

From Fort Stockton,Tx to Roswell in New Mexico

We left "Apache Springs" in Texas - outside of Fort Stockton - and we drove for hours the 285 North over flat country and farm land with many oil wells and pretty landscape.

We arrived in Pecos, the home of the world first rodeos

Entering now the State of New Mexico - Viva la vida!

The sky was very dark in Artesia but not because of coming rain, it was because of a sand storm building up all over the flat regions there.

The street was straight as an arrow for miles - it seemed like it will never end!

In a little village with the nice name "Loving" was the main attraction this sculpture of a Cowboy on a horse.

Very nice to see were also the already slight green blooming trees against the blue sky on the way to Carlsbad

Or all the Yucca plants, a typical plant in this hot and dusty area

Somebody tried to shoot into this sign - Billy the kid maybe - or just some drunk Cowboys?... LOL.. :))

In the middle of no man's land was "Lake Arthur" - a real lake in this dry desert area

Carlsbad was not a place for me to stay, nothing exciting to see except the only one attraction is a big natural cave outside of Carlsbad, that's it - nothing more. I don't like caves to much! The same disappointment was Roswell for me. All over town you can see all those "Alien" shops, filled with plastic toys and souvenir kitsch about "Area 501". A lot of the business were tuned into that "out of space" and "U.F.O." kitsch.

Like this one very well known Supermarket - and that was surprising for me too.

Also Wal Mart was into UFO's and Aliens etc.... we stayed that night on their parking lot and were shaken nearly brainless by the horrendous desert wind.


Hi my friends,

thanks again for all your visits and kind compliment. You're right, this country is beautiful and it changes its landscape so often and in such a wonderful way! You all can be very proud of your country!

I will show you tomorrow from our trip today from Roswell trought real desert areas with white sand, yellow grass and high mountains. We are arrived tonight here on a nice campground at almost 6000 feet high and we drove since our start in January more than 4000 miles!!

See you tomorrow!
Susanne and David