A short drive north of the city had some other sights
A parallel road to the big connecting highway ran you through more desert wonderland, a modern yet foreboding adobe church, and a reminder that not all business ventures in remote locations will prosper.
There are many, many cemeteries sprinkled along the roads and they always show signs of life and evidence of folks visiting (even if for only 1 day) and leaving plastic flowers in their wake. Because it is such dry land they are not always the tidiest of places but i did not find them depressive.
The sun was getting low and the moon was starting to rise. Time to head back to the nest.
The Big World 