Gila Cliff Dwellings

Today we drove up past Silver City to the Gila Cliff Dwellings. We had the Ranger guided "tour", which was really just a kid telling us stuff that he wasn't sure was true. He gave a lot of "probably" answers and even said "I saw one in a gift shop that had 2 levels" when talking about what one of the rooms might have been. So, it was really cool to see the cliff dwellings, but the ranger was not the greatest guide in the world. No cell service anywhere near the place, so we got a little lost going home before I stopped to look at the map on the brochure to determine that we had to turn around and find the right state route. Thank the almighty for our ability to read a map, and a compass on our rear view mirror. Stopped in Deming for dinner in someone's garage, actually a place we entered from an alley called "Elisa's House of Pies and Restaurant". We were the only ones in the place except for the older black couple that ran it. The wife took our orders and the husband went in back and cooked. The food was really good, it felt like eating at a family party. We sat and talked to the couple for about 30 minutes after we were done. Very interesting people, they retired and then got bored so they started selling pies and then opened the restaurant.