We drove down from Santa Fe to Silver City, about a 300 mile journey. The first portion was down I-25 and easy. The second part was on Rt. 152 through the Mimbras Mountains and very windy and steep. Two bridges we crossed over were listed as being only 12' 6" high on advance notice signs. since the RV with roof top A/C unit is exactly that, we were worried about turning around. Fortunately, when we got to the bridges they were actually 12' 8". Plenty of room to spare.
By the time we got set up, it was getting a little late and we decided to just take an exploratory trip around town. Since our site has no cable tv, we were happy to see a movie theatre in town. The theatre looks like a warehouse, just a rectangular steel building with two screens. We decided on Ben Stiller in The Heartbreak Kid which is supposed to be grossly funny. Just as we were getting to know who was who, the power went out and everyone was evacuated from the theatre. They refunded the $6/tix on the way out. The real surprise was that the power was out everywhere. Police were at some of the lights on traffic control, but there were a lot more lights than cops available. People remained cool and did a rotation like they do at all the four way stops, so no one got hurt. That was the days excitement.
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A few years ago we had power outages in El Paso caused by lines down in the Silver City area. It was apparently some back to nature protesters.
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