Reese & Rayna’s Trip to Las Cruces

Walked in El Paso, the walk went through the beautiful rose gardens and city streets. El Paso and it's sister city in Mexico have a Mexican culture featuring wonderful food, dance and the arts. Information on El Paso Mesilla is a beautiful old historic town with quaint shops and great food. It has a very old cemetery which sets at the edge of town - San Albino Cemetery. San Albino Cemetery - Mesilla

Day 4 - we traveled across the High Plains today from Santa Rosa, N. M. to Las Cruces and for the night in El Paso, Texas. On the way to Las Cruces we stopped a big Pistachio Store - we all different flavors of pistachios.  Learn about McGinn's Pistachioland History of pistachio trees No modeling today for Rayna & Reese, check back tomorrow on a new outfit.

Day 3 on the way to Las Cruces found us traveling though Kansas in the fog all the way from Wichita to just south of Liberal - the fog got so heavy north of Liberal, KS it was impossible to make out anything at the side of the road. Once we got to the Oklahoma border the sun came up and the winds picked up. We fought the wind and heavy truck traffic all way through the Oklahoma panhandle, a portion of the Texas panhandle and into New Mexico to Santa Rosa. By the time we got to Santa Rosa the winds were 30mph with gusts up into the 40's. So a long tiring day. We did stop and have a nice spaghetti lunch at a small cafe in Guymon, Oklahoma.    Santa Rosa's claim to fame is Route 66 and there is a neat Route 66 museum in town which we visited. Route 66 was popular route to drive in the 1950's & 1960's. Information on Route 66 Information on the Route 66 auto museum in Santa Rosa, N.M. Route 66 outfits

 Day 2 on our journey to Las Cruces brought us through Illinois, Missouri and Kansas. We stopped for lunch in St. Joseph, Missouri known as a Pony Express stop and trading post. Sitting on the banks of the Missouri River it continues to see a great deal of trade and industry. We had a picnic at the park across the street from the Pony Express Museum. Tonight we are staying in Wichita, Kansas. Wichita once was a cowtown and you can still visit the cowtown museum. These days Wichita is home to many aerospace companies including Learjet, Cessna, and Beechcraft. Many women pilots were from Kansas including Amelia Earhart. Information on: Women Pilots from Kansas   Information on: Wichita's Aerospace companies

 Today was the start of our journey to the southwest. We headed out bright and early. We traveled through Michigan, down to Toledo, Ohio over to Lafayette, Indiana. Lafayette is home to Purdue University and sits on the Wabash River. Several Native American Tribes settled in the Lafayette area before white settlers came to Indiana. We had a picnic lunch at Armstrong Park named after Neil Armstrong the first astronaut to walk on the moon, he attended college at Purdue.  Information about -  Armstrong park   It was raining when we left Lafayette and headed southwest to Springfield, Illinois. Springfield is the capital of Illinois and the "Land of Lincoln". Lincoln came to Springfield to practice law in 1837, would marry and eventually be elected President of the United States. Information on -   Springfield,IL Reese is dressed in a gingham dress from the time period of the late 1930's - 1940's. The dress is made out of gingham fabric which has a super neat history...

 We are sleeping in the car - we are so ready to go! /