And The ADVENTURE Continues...: June 3, 2015 Deming NM and June 4, 2015 Tucson, AZ

June 3 -Travel day to Deming, NM

Seeing that it was going to be a hot one we started our day out at 7am. The drive was uneventful. We got to see Mexico from away as we breezed through El Paso. That city is pretty big with lots and lots of people and cars everywhere. We made it to Deming around 12 or so. The park now looks like a big parking lot as all of the snowbirds have gone back home. But all of the campgrounds here are gravel or pea gravel and very little vegetation. We stayed at our first Escapees Park (Dream Catcher RV Park) and it was just what we needed for an overnight stop. We just relaxed after a quick trip to Walmart.

a very long road

Mountains in the distance

Mountains on the other side of the road

Different and pretty windmills

Mexico is in the background beyond the brown wall

Welcome to New Mexico

Pecan trees

Huge roadrunner

Had to stop for Border Patrol check

Dream Catchers RV Park

This is what the campground looked like before we parked

Our campsites

June 4 – Travel day to Tucson, AZ

We left Deming early and headed west on I-10 toward Tucson. About 30 miles outside of Deming we passed the Continental Divide. For those who may not know this is where the rivers start to run into the Pacific Ocean and the others run into the Atlantic Ocean. We only had a couple of hundred miles to travel so we knew we were going to get in early. We had forgotten that Arizona does not do Daylight Savings Time, so when the rest of the country does shift Arizona goes from Mountain Time to Pacific Time so we got to Tucson an hour earlier than we thought we would. Along I 10 we also went through an area called the Texas Canyon. It was an area with a lot of rock formations. It was unique.

We pulled into Voyager RV Resort which is an ENCORE park that we booked through Coast to Coast for $15 a night plus a $4 resort fee. The park is very nice with pull through sites and a lot of amenities. We left and headed to the Biosphere 2. We had a groupon and wanted to check it out but first we had to head to a local pet clinic who gave us 13 ½ bag sample bags of cat food for our cats at no cost. We have been having a hard time finding it along our trip but this clinic had some that was going to expire this fall and gave them to us instead of the being thrown away when they expire. You have got to love that deal…free.

We drove an hour and a half to the Biosphere and it was not what we had thought and it is not handicap accessible so Amy could not participate. They had not advised us of this when Jeff got the groupon so we headed back toward Tucson. We also had a stop at Saguaro National Park. So off we went.

We did not quite make it all the way there but we did see a whole bunch of the Saguaro Cactus in the Tucson Mountain Park. We also took a side trip to check out a campground in the area. After a full morning and afternoon of driving we went back to the campground and prepared to eat and get ready for tomorrow’s trip to Yuma.