Saturday, June 02, 2007
Tourist Trap
Madrid (pronounced Mad rid), New Mexico is a tiny tourist town on Highway 14, once a coal mining community, and these days often a movie set. A new diner was erected for “Wild Hogs”, and now sits idle except for the sign in the window listing the stars of the show.
Shops along the highway sell everything from clothing to jewelry to oriental rugs. Yesterday Dyan and I enjoyed delicious Cuban cuisine in an outdoor restaurant next door to a shop displaying Cuban art.
Java Junction’s sign on the gate advertised itself as the MADrid HATTER, but hats were only a small part of their varied merchandise.
After visiting the last gallery which displayed, among other works of art, unique chandeliers that sell for as much as $24,000 each, we walked across a platform that I recognized as a scale, like the ones that weighed our cotton trailers at the gin. I suppose this one was used for weighing coal to be loaded onto railroad cars.
This was my second visit to Madrid but probably not the last, a very pleasant way to spend an afternoon. Thanks, Dyan!
Cora Gail Trent
www.cgtrent.com
cgtrent@att.net
Shops along the highway sell everything from clothing to jewelry to oriental rugs. Yesterday Dyan and I enjoyed delicious Cuban cuisine in an outdoor restaurant next door to a shop displaying Cuban art.
Java Junction’s sign on the gate advertised itself as the MADrid HATTER, but hats were only a small part of their varied merchandise.
After visiting the last gallery which displayed, among other works of art, unique chandeliers that sell for as much as $24,000 each, we walked across a platform that I recognized as a scale, like the ones that weighed our cotton trailers at the gin. I suppose this one was used for weighing coal to be loaded onto railroad cars.
This was my second visit to Madrid but probably not the last, a very pleasant way to spend an afternoon. Thanks, Dyan!
Cora Gail Trent
www.cgtrent.com
cgtrent@att.net
