With a day to spare no less - spending Friday poking around and then get up good and early Saturday and drive down to Socorro and Trinity Site.
Since we were ahead of schedule, we spent some time exploring a couple small towns. Trinidad, Colorado is drop-dead gorgeous. It was quite the booming mining town and featured a large theater as well as an opera house. The majority of the town dates from the 1890's - there is a gorgeous Catholic Church dating from that era as well as a defunct brewery and a lot of old houses. I took a bunch of photos and will post them later today or tomorrow.
We also got off the road and visited Las Vegas but were very disappointed. Elvis was nowhere to be seen and we could not find any of the hotels or casinos... Oops - wrong Vegas. Las Vegas New Mexico was in a very sad state of decay with junkies hanging out in the town square and no police to be seen anywhere. It started out as being a major railroad terminus and the old station was gorgeous and being restored - maybe there is hope for the place yet...
Had a late lunch and heading out for some Mexican food in a little bit.