Goodbye Tucson and Moving on…

Well we certainly enjoyed our stay in Tucson and liked the Far Horizon Resort. With the weekly happy hours offering free beer/wine and music how could we not like it especially with the added amenities ( nice pool, hot tub, weight room, wood shop, etc)The month of November flew by in the flurry of activities..

As we planed our route down to central Texas for the Christmas holidays we ended up adding three more days in Tucson. We did this for two reasons. First there was a cold snap coming through with some gusty winds. Windy and cold isn’t a great combination. Also, two of the state parks I wanted to stay at were going to be closed one for renovations and one for duck hunting season.

Once we hit the road we spent our first night at Sunrise RV Park in Deming NM which lived up to its name the next morning. We’ve spent time in Deming before but not at this RV park. The park itself is mostly filled with locals as could be attested by the amount of clutter around their RV’s.

There was also one RV that  really should be towed out and we can’t even guess as to why it is still there since it has busted windows and is not powered up. It was a total eyesore. But on the bright side the manager Wayne was a super nice fellow who also informed us that the owners built a brew pub next to the RV park and had us hop on his golf cart to show us how to get to it.

The brew pub is called Happy Camper and had a nice assortment of craft beers on tap at reasonable prices. We tried a few different brews each night we stayed in Deming. We also met many other travelers from some of the adjacent RV parks. There are three or four RV parks all in a row, several of which are nicer but more expensive that the one we were in.

We had added a day so we could go hiking at the Rockhound State Park just southeast of town. It was only about a 20 minute drive to the park and was $5.00 per car for entry at a self pay station. We paid up and parked at the Park Headquarters which has a nice little museum inside as well.

The hike we took began at the HQ and basically took us along a hillside overlooking the campground which by the way has ample sites for big rigs all nicely laid out in a loop with panoramic mountain views. The hike was through typical desert terrain with mostly Opuntia cacti and thickets of Creosote Bush. We spotted a lot of desert birds including both Scaled and Gambles Quail along with several the of the best looking sparrows, the Black-chinned Sparrow.

With winds approaching the area we will leave Deming and sprint on Interstate 10 toward San Antonio…

NOTE: We are currently in TX for the holidays…