Walking in the mountains

We love warm weather and live in the Sonoran Desert without much complaining about the dry heat. But every once in awhile it is good to get away. Lately the temps have been 105˚ and higher here, so we decided to take the RV up to the mountains. This photo was taken on the way to NM. It is one of our favorite stops on Interstate 10 in the Dragoon Mountains of Arizona.

 

We drove to Silver City, a small college town and artists’ community in the southwest part of New Mexico.

It is on the Continental Divide Trail as it passes into the Gila National Forest. We stayed in the middle of the city at Silver City RV Park. Temperatures in the daytime were in the 80s and in the 60s at night. It was raining like crazy when we arrived, but we had blue skies the rest of the time.

 

During our two days, we walked all around the downtown area. The docent at the Visitors Center gave us some short history lessons and lots of tips on things to do and places to see. We ate Mexican food at Jaliscos Cafe. We visited the Grant County Art Guild Gallery and the Silver City food co-op. 

On our second morning there, we rode the city bus (Corre Caminos) to the south end of the Boston Hill trail system. On the short walk to the trailhead, there were tiny wild watermelons growing along the side of the road.

 

We hiked up and around the old Adonis mining pits on a trail that ran from the southeast corner of Boston Hill park to the northeast corner and out to the downtown district of bookshops and cafes. I had a cold pineapple soda at the HoneyBeeGood pastry shop and later had home-made lemon creme and wild blueberry ice cream at the Pretty Sweet Emporium.

 

Driving home it felt like we had been away for a month. It was a great break.