We left Thatcher, AZ Tuesday, Feb. 8th and drove through major wind and a huge dust storm as we headed towards, Deming, NM. The flora of this section of desert is different than others, except we are seeing more purple cactus. These cactus are well protected with 1"-2" spines.
But the local rabbits are able to nibble around the spines for a delicious meal. We have seen many of these rabbis and they are huge! Far from suffering nutritionally! We have also seen many long horn cattle, seemingly thriving in this open range desert. Here you see a rabbit dinner table.
Crossing over into New Mexico. Do not let the blue sky convince you it is warm! We stopped in Lordsburg to mail some Valentine treats to the grandkids and then moved on to Demming. We spent the night of the 8th in a Walmart parking lot with a dozen other RV'ers.
On the 9th, we drove out 10 miles on a dirt road to an RV park that boasted about its seclusion. They say, "If you want to be in the country, you have to drive on a country road to get there!" That we did!
This is the road leading into the ranch. The one on the left is a wash and the one on the right is the road. It is a small working cattle ranch of 18,000 acres plus an RV park, called Hidden Valley Ranch. It is surrounded by miles and miles of open range land.
Wayne hiked up on a hill west of the RV park to take this view. The ranch goes out to the mountains.
Self portrait. Notice the jacket? There is an Alaska beanie under the hat, protecting his ears!
A close up of our rig, taken from up on the mountain.
A closer close up taken from the same place on the mountain as the last three pictures.
It is beautiful here, though it has poor cell phone reception, we plan to spend a couple nights here so Ann can pay bills. Oh, we bought a Vizio 32" LCD HDTV for the rig. Roy and Wayne installed it in the trailer while we were in Thatcher. It works great, but we have found that it will work much better if we get a fancier DVD player. But, until then, it is great and we enjoyed its use while here in the evenings. Oh, the stars are amazing out here!!!
When we leave here on the 11th, we will head towards Roswell and see if we can see any aliens!
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