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.
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| a very long road |
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| Mountains in the distance |
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| Mountains on the other side of the road |
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| Different and pretty windmills |
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| Mexico is in the background beyond the brown wall |
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| Welcome to New Mexico |
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| Pecan trees |
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| Huge roadrunner |
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| Had to stop for Border Patrol check |
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| Dream Catchers RV Park |
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| This is what the campground looked like before we parked |
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| 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.
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| And the road continues |
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| Made it to Arizona |
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| Texas Canyon |
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| another shot of Texas Canyon |
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| Entrance to RV Park |
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| Biosphere Buildings |
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| Petrified Wood |
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| Malachite & Azurite |
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| Cactus design |
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| Jeff and Amy |
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| Saguaro Cactus |
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| Jeff climbed up to the building |
Just want to give everyone an idea on how tall this cactus was Jeff is 5'9" so this is about 30'
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| 2 types of cactus |
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| This looks like a side shot of a monkeys head |
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| RV Park |
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| Our sites |
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| Saguaro in bloom |
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| We saw one of these but it was too fast to get a picture of him |
