Jan 17-20 Deming NM

On January 17 we drove from Benson to Little Vineyard RV Park in Deming NM. There was no vineyard in sight, just a parking lot offering hook ups and cable tv, but the sky was beautiful.

The first day we stayed close to home and visited the Deming Luna Mimbres Museum. It was an old armory filled with room after room of various collections. Here’s a glance at one of the quilts and part of the rock collection.

Quilt from afar

Quilt close up

A small section of the rock collection

On the 18th we drove to City of Rocks State Park and were so impressed that we decided to camp there after Deming. (Since I’ll be describing it in detail in my next entry, I won't include any pictures here.) The following day we drove to Rockhound State Park at the base of the Florida Mountains.

Florida Mountains (pronounced Flor-eee-da)

Ray at the visitor center

While picnicking at Spring Canyon (2 miles away), we spied two Persian Ibex on the horizon. What a find!