"READY TO ROLL"...Off to Deming, NM

Well...we left Valley Vista RV Park in Benson, AZ...and good rittrens to it...If I ever go there again it will be too soon...We had a lot fun with our friends there but the park we were in was not friendly at all...This was our friendliest acquaintance...if you remember...This is kind-of the first picture that I posted from Benson...Friendliest critter on the place...

Here we are at the Safeway parking lot...Gathering supplies...and mailing our Easter stuff at the Postal Annex...This is us gettin' ready to roll down the road toward Deming, NM...Lookin' good, I'd say!!!

ou know the desert is interesting...like the way the wind has carved this beautiful piece of sculpture into the side of this hill...it is outstandingly interesting...

I took this picture so that you could see that there is not much difference between Arizona ans New Mexico...This is New Mwxico...Can you tell the difference??? Didn't think so.....Neither can I...

Now I know you guys aren't gonna believfe this...but that yellow you see in thin picture...well...it ...is...WILD FLOWERS!!!! I coldn't believe it...there were really yellow folwers in the field...I wasso surprised...I just had to take a picture...Wild Flowers on the desert..."who-da-thunk-it"???

Then you look again and you'r back in the sand and dirt again...there was some white sand here along the road...we are not far from White Sands National Momument...I think...Probably won't get there to see that this time...

Then we crossed the Continental Divide...The kast time I took a picture like this we were crossing the divide near Yellowstone or in Yellowstone...I can't remember which now..But here we are at 4585 feet and there's not a pine tree in sight...but I bet if you looked hard enough you could find a scorpion, ir a sidewinder or a road runner...but nothing green...

As we were approaching Deming...I got out our Passport America directory to make sure that Lisa was heading us in the right direction... she had gone in a straight line for so long, I was afraid that she might have gotten hypmotized from the boredom of it all...but sure enough...she was leading us in exactally the right direction...

Now I hadn't read the directions before myself...and as I read go on...it said to turn right on HWY 549 past the Livestock Auction to HWY 377 and turn Left...well you had to stop in the fast lane of the HWY and turn Left...then go until the road becomes gravel and continue on to the stop sign and turn left on the dirt road...This stretch of the road was about 3 miles long...I think (it seemed like 20 miles of BAD road)...and at the end it said to look for the trees...

So we did look for the trees and sure enough they were there just as the directory said...We got to the gate and the manager was right there to open the gate for us...John...is a very nice man who saw to it that we were all settled...it is a great place to park...but we drove about 10 miles back and along the HWY 10...we can see it our our windows...but there are no on/off ramps closer...so there you have it...El Rancho Lobo RV Park...And there are trees...

Here we are all settled in for the next couple of days..."TAD" and Gene & Shirley's New Alfa...

More to come tomorrow...