Rockhound State Park

After a leisurely start today we arrived at our initial destination

Rockhound State Park in Deming, NM

We again fought westerly headwinds all day - this time upwards of 35 mph.

Our route took us thru El Paso, Tx and at one point Interstate 10 is

literally a couple of hundred feet from the border.  You can see the border fence
running for miles and miles.

Our arrival here at Rockhound will now give us 3 days of down time,

and allow me to focus on work without the added pressure of traveling.

This is a shot of my office phone mounted and operational.
I wonder how many RV's have these...  probably more than you would think.

This is our home for the next 3 days.  The site is huge!  I could park 4 or 5

of my rigs on it.

It is on the side of a mountain above the town of Deming, and the wind is

blowing pretty strong.  The nice thing is that it is blowing from dead ahead

of the coach so there is no rocking at all.

Tonight however them temps are going down into the 20's so again we'll be

dug down deep into the comforters.

This is the view from one side window looking down towards Deming

There is only about 20 Campsites here.  Each has Electric and water.

And below is the view out the back window....  Not to shabby!

There are trails up the mountain and the Rockhunting is supposed to be excellent

(hence the name of the park)

There are several types of gemstones to be found here and the park allows you

to collect up to 15 lbs per day.

Meanwhile inside the Coach, Christmas is in full swing.

Kate has decorated for the holidays and it makes our little home all

the more cozy and comfy

The fireplace is going and helping to warm the interior.

Above us at the top of the mountain are several TV transmission towers so

when I set up and ran a scan on the TV we had 21 Digital Stations...

I didn't even have to aim the antenna!

Our main concern was that tonight is the season finale of "Survivor" and we

are both big fans so we were hoping that we would be able to find a CBS station

and no problem with that so we are good to go.

You see - even though we have Satellite TV - we do not get local stations over the

Satellite once we leave our local area without calling Dish and going thru a process.

You don't want to do it too many times or they could get grouchy so I'll save it till

we get to Tucson and are stationary for several weeks.

So folks...

We are comfy cozy on the side of a mountain watching Dallas vs Pittsburgh,

and are going to stay put here for a few days.

Tonight promises to be a clear, dark, star filled sky.