The Trek- Pt. 1- The story of Linda and Jerry

Oh the big road trip day: Las Cruces to San Antonio.  It was a long long day, but worth it.

On this morning our lovely hostess Linda's husband, Jerry, greeted us for breakfast.  They were kind enough to have one of their employees come in a little earlier to make huevos rancheros for us before we headed out.  And consequently, they were the best huevos rancheros I've ever had.

Anyways, Jerry had heard from his wife that he should talk to the "3 gals from NY." haha But as in Linda's case, it was us who did the listening.  Jerry turned out to be quite the character.  He was raised on a reservation in North Dakota and grew up going to Native American schools.  He later moved to Phoenix went to school and became an architect.  He met Linda when he'd moved to Las Cruces and she lived in the same apt. complex as him.  As he tells it, every day he'd hear these heels clicking outside and finally one day he peeked out his door to check out who they belonged too.  Naturally, he was smitten with Linda and only slightly dismayed to hear she liked wealthy older men.  It didn't deter him at all, and before you knew it they were dating and married.  From there Jerry told us all about buying the Inn and designing it himself.  He was truly a very interesting man.  He transitioned from architecture to the lack of confrontation with most people in society and over to the Stimulus plan.  He was a hoot.  Probably my favorite thing he said over breakfast was how you're either awake or asleep as a person.  I'll have to ask Jaime and Steph to make sure I get the rest of his thoughts on that correct. But it was some deep thinking over huevos rancheros.

And so a very sincere thank you to the Lundeen Inn of the Arts for the fabulous conversation and overall delightful stay.