There was a man eating alone at La Posta we made some small talk. He seemed OK so I told him the truth regarding my trip. If I have a hinkie feeling I lie. I use the, meeting a friend, a giant, who crushes people with his bare hands for sport do not make me pepper spray you or something like that. He was astounded that I was traveling alone and taking such a long trip. Said quit your job several times. "Boy I wish I had had the B@##& to do that. ...

Lunch was at La Posta de Mesilla Restaurant, Cantina & Chile Shop excellent. La Posta is located in the Old Butterfield Stage Building, pre-cursor to the pony express. The food was great. The building is an amazing maze of rooms filled with color, parrots (real), fish aquariums, music and shops. Every building has a story and every shop keeper also. I found many folks from somewhere else, escaping the crowds, the traffic or relatives. One shop claims ...

We passed a ghost town, Steins, in New Mexico in an area referred to as Doubtful Canyon. The Southern Pacific was crushing gravel for 300 miles of rail bed. The Chinese workers who did the work were not allowed to live in Steins but had to stay out by the quarry itself. There is a cemetery to the south of I10. It is said that the ground is so hard the graves had to be blasted out of the earth. From the train you can see the old buildings and even make out...