Truth or Consequences, NM and We're Headed Home

 Sat March 11, 2023 -  Kevin found that Truth or Consequences has a "Second Saturday" event where the art galleries and shops are open in the evening on the second Saturday of each month.  Well, March 11th happens to be the second Saturday of the month, so we decided to check it out.  We started at the T or C Brewing Co for a few beers and dinner.  It was fun to walk around the downtown area and check out the local shops.  

T or C beers

Lots of nice murals in downtown T or C (and a matching bench!)

in addition to art galleries, T or C has a few antique and second-hand stores that were fun to wander through

Monday March 13, 2023 - Today we started to think about our next week of the trip.  We were supposed to head north to Santa Fe and Taos, but the weather there was going to be lows in the 20s and highs in the 40s for the 4 days we were going to be there.  The only way to hit warm weather for the next week was to head south, which wasn't heading us home.  We decided that it would be easier to just go home...it's been a great trip, one more week won't make much difference.  We'll shoot for some 6 hr drive days, stay in a few Walmarts/Casino parking lots and shoot to get home on Thursday. 

One last morning hike on the Lakeshore trail (we finally made it down to the lake)

I need to find the name of this type of prickly pear.  I haven't seen any prickly pears that are curvy like these that I've seen at Elephant Butte

We're going to miss the sunny warm days, but spring is coming soon to Indy

We added some good stickers to our wall on this trip!

Tiny is headed home.  5200 miles, 110 hours of driving, 14.8 mpg (we miss the 17.5 mpg we got in Alaska with Uncle Gene keeping us at a more economical speed!)