How about Dennys :’)Last year I was headed home and had enough mountain driving but I had not been to LC before so my mom and I decided to check it out. I had no idea how high we were until I saw White Sands below us. So beautiful coming down. I forget the name of the town we stayed in but we were surrounded by mountains. We ate ate Dennys (which was very good) then took the military highway thru the desert to El Paso. My kind of drive...flat...beside the “hills” :’)
Ruidoso, maybe? Been a long time since I’ve been out there.
Alamogordo maybe? It’s just the other side of White Sands (my Mom worked at the missile range years ago) and is surrounded on one side by the Organ Mountains (Las Cruces is just on the other side of the mnts) and darnit I forget what the others are called but Cloudcroft is in them.
Sounds like Ruidoso- did the Denny’s look like a 50s diner? If so that is the best Denny’s I ever ate in- Hubby and I spent 4 days there last year and ate several meals there.