Finally we got through Texas. We are in Las Cruces,New Mexico at the wonderful home of Lee and Cindy Herman who are Warm Showers hosts. They are situated on the edge of the desert with a yard full of different kinds of cacti, some in bloom. It's a different world. No grass, no flowers. Mountains line the near horizon. The home is huge. All tile and marble floors. Cindy showed us immediately to the shower. Guess we were pretty bad looking. The shower was actually big enough to hold all four of us at once.
Tonight the Herman's are hosting a house concert. The folk singer Beth Wood arrived around 4:00 and we all sat down to a supper of soup and salad. Ron and I made the salad. We'd become the salad experts when the whole group was still together and cooking group meals.
This is now Sunday evening: last night became very busy as 30 guests arrived. We helped to put out food and enjoyed meeting so many local people. The concert was delightful and I'd love to begin hosting house concerts myself. Ron has actually done it several times in Canada.
We all got up early. Beth stayed the night too and needed to get on the road early, like us. Lee cooked a big breakfast of French toast with real maple syrup and fried apples and bananas in butter. Was very good but it's no wonder I'm not losing weight.
We headed west by 7:30. It was chilly. As the day went on the winds continued to intensify, and of course from the west. It takes all your strength to hold the bike upright. We couldn't even ride faster than 8 mph and at long intervals it was only 6 mph. It was an exhausting day!
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