Rockhound State Park
I made my way to Deming New Mexico this morning, did some shopping at the Deming Walmart while in town, And then toddled down the road about 10 miles to Rockhound State Park where a reserved boondocking site was waiting for me.
I've stayed at Rockhound lots of times so there's nothing new for me to do. Mostly I'll be just walking around the campground, or walking around the hills that almost surround the campground and taking a few pictures.
If the weather guessers are correct it looks like the four or five days I'm here the daytime temperatures will be in the mid- 60s, and night times right around freezing. So it looks like I won't be in any really warm temperatures until I get to where the Saguaro cactus grows.
A week or so ago I was thinking about getting to Tombstone Arizona in time to see the Christmas parade on December 14th, but not knowing how my inverter problems were going to work out I decided to stay close to Deming in case I had to return my new Harbor Freight inverter. But the new inverter is still working So here I am at Rockhound, and it looks like the way things are going I'll probably be spending my Christmas holiday in Tombstone. At least the boondocking place I stay at in town doesn't fill up, so I don't have to worry about finding a place to stay.
PS…The final official word from the New Mexico State Parks.
https://www.emnrd.nm.gov/spd/fees-permits/
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This standing wall shows how the interiors of the buildings were finished; it looks like adobe mud spread on, smoothed out, and maybe later whitewashed.
This is a very poor picture of a McClellan Saddle. It was inside a Plexiglas box at the Fort Selden Museum, and Plexiglas boxes are not good for taking pictures. This was the standard saddle of the United States Calvary. The only reason I’m showing it is that a long, long time ago, when I worked at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs as a civilian, there was a huge warehouse I used to go to on the post where hundreds of McClellan Saddles were stored since Fort Carson was once a Calvary post back in the day. It still is, except now it’s called Air Calvary, and they train on helicopters. I don’t know what they did with all those antique saddles; they are probably still there collecting dust.
Can you imagine running around these desert areas in a get-up like this?
Many of the old fort walls are held up with 2×4s to prevent them from toppling over. Saving anything made out of adobe seems like a waste of time.
A Mexican cart. It looks rather primitive, but at least it doesn’t get flat tires from all the cactus