On Thursday we drove to New Mexico. “The land of enchantment”.

We had been staying in Bisbee, which is a very cute little weirdo-hippie-skiddy-gay friendly-ex mining town in southern Arizona. A “colourful” place full of “characters”. Very pretty too, up in the hills with lots of old buildings and small windy streets. and colossal holes in the hillsides where the mining happened.

One of the Bisbee highlights was that Bj found a bike shop full of beautiful vintage bike frames, where the owner talked his ear off for a half hour about all the famous people he’d met and how weird Bisbee is plus every detail about every bike that Bj happened to glance at. Unfortunate was the fact that he knew all too well the value of the bikes.

So then we drove to New Mexico and the road we came on goes right down to the Mexican border, we didn’t cross it because too much hassle, but we saw the big fence and the swarm of border patrol cars. We stopped in the border town there called ‘Douglas’ and it was at the Vinnie’s in Douglas that I found and bought for two dollars the single-most amazing outfit I have ever seen, let alone owned, let alone fits me perfectly. PHOTO-SHOOT TO COME MY FRIENDS, photo-shoot to come.

The drive here was extremely nice, all desert but with mountains in the distance. Slowly escalating. We have each now seen one roadrunner from the car. on the roadside. exciting. Surprisingly they look nothing like warner bros would have us believe, amazing, they’re not blue, they’re desert coloured, who knew.

The first New Mexico town we stayed in was Lordsburg, total skidsville. on the train tracks which means freight trains howling all night long which was good news for me. I wandered around taking photos because there was nothing else to do while Bj was working.

One of the best things about these parts is all the Mexican food. But also it’s blue skies every day and a lot of beautiful desert buildings with designs on them and lots of art. The thing you notice about New Mexico is that people who live here seem to love it. state pride. not undue.

Now we are in Silver City. It’s beautiful and the people are extremely friendly.