About half way home last Sunday evening, as the sun lowered toward the mountains to the West, we got off I-25 at the Las Vegas, New Mexico exit and made our way to the old plaza in the center o town. What a find! Obviously the railroad brought great prosperity to the area at one time, although now that prosperity was but a memory. The plaza is dominated by the old Plaza Hotel, which still provides rooms for guests.


The Plaza, viewed from the grand old hotel.


Pat in front of the Obama campaign headquarters on the plaza.


Junk store with disturbing clown.

After we walk around downtown for a while, we drove around the neighborhoods. While gawking at all the sights, after I went down the wrong way on a one way street I almost got a ticket from a local cop who we had seen earlier emptying whisky and beer bottles taken from a car at a traffic stop.

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