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Phoenix to SV
On Sunday, March 16, we packed up and closed up our rental in Phoenix. We headed south and stopped at SanTan Brewing in Chandler. They have a nice brewery and restaurant in the historic downtown area. We enjoyed a delicious brunch and I had a 5 oz. sample of the Orange Alien and a 5…
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Phoenix 2025 – Part 2
Mike and Mary came and visited for a few days. Our first night we went to Tesota for delicious dinner and drinks. Our second day with Mike and Mary we went to the Fry Bread House for lunch. The fry bread tacos were very big and messy and we had to use forks to eat…
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Phoenix 2025 – Part 1

Here is the first of two long posts about all the things we did and places we visited while in Phoenix. Our first day in Phoenix, I had the day off work so we explored the neighborhood. We had a great brunch at the Toasted Owl and checked out the Changing Hands Bookstore and Stinkweed…
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LC to Phx
We left Las Cruces on Saturday, February 15. We only had to drive three house that day, so we took our time. We made a stop Deming, New Mexico and went to the Deming Luna Mimbres Museum. It is in an old fire house. Really big and impressive collection of historic artifacts, minerals, pottery and…
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Goodbye Las Cruces
I have covered our day trips from Las Cruces in my previous posts. Now that we have left Las Cruces, I want to fill in some of our other adventures. The weather was cold when we arrived, it warmed up for a while and then it was cool again. We took advantage of the warm…
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Hatch & T or C
On Saturday, February 8, we made the 30 minute drive to Hatch, New Mexico. We found a place to park and walked around and looked in the shops. A lot of the shops have the same ceramics and metal work. There is a lot of lawn and yard art and wall hangings. Also ceramics, spices…
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El Paso
On Saturday, February 1, we went on a day trip to El Paso. We headed out early so we could get brunch at Dead Beach Brewing. It was pretty quiet when we got there and we had our choice of where to sit. We took a spot right in the middle of the bar. They…
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Ken & Janelle & White Sands
Ken & Janelle came to visit us in Las Cruces on January 24. They arrived at our place a little after noon so we went out to lunch at Si Señor’s. In front of the restaurant, their fountain was covered in ice from the recent cold days. Inside, we had a good lunch, some beers…
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Las Cruces
When we left Tucson on Saturday, January 11, we took a little detour and drove to Silver City NM. We stopped at Little Toad Creek Brewing for some tasty lunch. We walked around Silver City and saw the Billy the Kid homesite, but it was too cold to do much else. We continued to Las…
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Goodbye Tucson
Our last 12 days in Tucson went pretty fast. For New Year’s Eve we went for a walk in the afternoon and stopped at Borderland Brewing. We sampled some beer and played some music on TouchTunes. On our way back, we stopped at the Good Oak Bar for a bump. That evening we watched the…
