Feb 26 - Driving to Deming, NM

  The drive along US-10 east was somewhat challenging.  It wasn't that long, but it traversed wide open basins, and over mountain passes.  But the real challenge was the strong cross winds.  I really needed to slow down to 60 or 65 mph, on a 75 mph highway.  And, I needed to keep both hands on the wheel.  The terrain is starting to change.  More huge, flat basins between these "sky island" mountain ranges.  More green between the shrubs on the basins.  You can see so far in the distance across these basins and over to the next mountain range.  Very cool.
  The GPS took us to the El Rancho Lobo RV Park along a 2 mile dirt road, that was like a washboard.  When we got to the park, the host said, "oh you should have called, we would have told you to take the paved road here". Our site is out in the open, with the flat basin all around.  This park has some trees circling most of the park, and they feed the birds, so there are more birds here than we've seen on our entire trip. 
  We set up, and I did more laundry.  I made dinner.  But, it was going to go down to 22 degrees tonight, so we didn't hook up the sewer or the water.  We had filled the fresh water tank at the last stop, and we have a fresh water tank heater, so we used that.  Between that and the heated RV, the pipes stayed unfrozen.

El Rancho Lobo RV park photos;