November 16-18, 2022 Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

 51 degrees with wind today. Brrr. We stayed inside. 

Quail in our campsite. They are so cute to watch. Many of you ask me how I find out about the cool places we go. Here is answer. I went to the visitors center yesterday and the nice man there loaded me down with info.

We went into T or C again today for a soak in one of the 10 hot springs in town.

We went into T or C again today for a soak in one of the 10 hot springs in town. We went to the Charles Motel to their bath house. It was built in 1930 originally therapeutics purposes. They treated people with polio. John filling our private tub. We spent an hour there. It was lovely.

 This s one of the private single tubs. They were therapeutic tubs for treating people with polio in the 30's. These only cost $5 for a half an hour.  Great deal. The Rio Grande river as it runs through town. 

We had some time before my  massage so we checked out the Ralph Edwards park. Here is the Ralph Edwards fishing pond. There was also a skate board park, basket ball court, picnic tables etc. Ralph was the MC of the game show Truth or Consequences show in the 1950's. he said he would do the 10ths anniversary show in any town that would change their name to Truth or Consequences. He came back every year for a fiesta they held. Elephant Butte Lake from our campsite at sunset tonight. 

We checked out a couple historic/ghost towns today. This is the San Jose Mission in Cuchilla. The town was founded as a stage stop in the 1850,s during the silver boom. The view coming over one of the mountain passes. 

The road is not a good road to take the bus on.  We were in the car. A cattle ranch outside of  Winston. 

The Winston General Store. Winston was founded in the 1880's by miners who found the neighboring town of Chloride 'too rowdy'. 600 people lived here at one time. The town flourished until the silver panic of 1893. A few historic buildings in Winston. 

 

 The Grafton Cabin was moved here in 2006 as part of the museum in Chloride. The Pioneer store is now a museum. It was locked up and sat for 73 years untouched. After it was renovated it was opened as a museum with much of the same stock from 73 years previous on the shelves. Chloride was a silver boom town. In the 1880's Chloride was a thriving community with 100 homes, 3,000 people, 9 saloons, 3 general stores, 2 hotels, restaurants, boarding house, assay office, a stage line, and a Chinese laundry.  The town declined following the 1893 silver panic.

The Monte Cristo was the saloon and dance hall. It is now  it is now a gift shop and gallery. Halloween decoration, spitting sign from the Winston General store, couple of welded signs and beware of attack squirrel, A chicken, cow and pig went to a BBQ. The end., sign for one of the silver mines, a spur mailbox and a pin cushion chicken at the gallery.

The inside of the Pioneer store museum. Most of this merchandise is original since the building was locked up for 73 years untouched. The lady running the museum was very informative about the history of the building and town. A few of the towns deer. 

The sign says Chloride National Forest. This was actually the old hanging tree. Cool historic home. 

The view coming over the pass on the way back. This is very beautiful country. We stopped and soaked at the Indian Springs on the way home. We had a private natural hot tub for 30 minutes--$5 each. It is the oldest spring in town. Natural means it is a tub with a gravel floor and the hot water rises up from the ground into it. It was very nice.