Silver Revisited

Friday afternoon found us wandering around in downtown Silver City once again.  A few of the group tried out the Little Toad Brewery and Distillery while Doris and I roamed around the stores nearby.  Soon, all of us were hungry, and we headed to the Jalisco Café for Mexican food.

If you like HOT chili sauce, you would love this place.  The menu even has a disclaimer on the top that warns that both the red chili and green chili are hot/spicy/mouth-burning, etc.  Jeff (Jerry's son) loves hot food and his forehead was sweating by the time he was finished.  Us old folks were not as adventuresome and stuck with the taco trio.  At least our tongues still had taste buds on them!

After dinner, we all walked across the bridge and found an old log cabin near the visitor center.  Even though it was a replica, it is still interesting that Billy the Kid lived in this location many, many years ago.

We did manage to find the grave of Billy the Kid's mother a few days later as we walked around the Memory Lane Cemetery.

Can you imagine being a parent and trying to deal with a teenage boy like this?  Yikes!  Ordinary teenagers are enough of a challenge.  Billy was already in trouble with the law and a federal fugitive by the time he was 16.  I can almost hear her say "Billy, if I told you once, I told you a thousand times, don't play with guns!".   Maybe she forgot to mention rifles....

So that is your history lesson for today.   For our Arizona friends, Silver City is just a short day's drive from Phoenix.  Maybe it's time for you to visit this interesting and quaint town in southwestern New Mexico.