Feb 27 - Deming, NM and Rock Hound State Park

  We spent the morning taking care of business.  I needed to call Tiffin and arrange for us to take the RV into their shop when we are in Alabama next April.  We are having troubles, again, with our water valve that opens the valve from the city water faucet into our water pipes.  When we do that, some water also flows into our fresh water tank, and then overflows, getting things wet that shouldn't get wet.  Until then, we will have to keep the drain open on the fresh water tank when we are hooked up to the city faucet, or just turn off the city water and work out of the fresh water tank.  Oh well.
  This afternoon, it warmed up to a nice 60 degrees and sunny.  We went to the nearby Rock Hound State Park.  This park, unlike most parks that say "do NOT remove anything from the park", this parks says "take up to 15 pounds of rocks, mineral, gems, crystals, whatever you find".  They have a nice hiking trail up over a hillside, covered with prickly-pear catcus and LOTS of rocks-big, little and littler.  It gave a nice view of the basin and Florida mountain range.  As we did a long, moderately strenuous hike yesterday, we only did the 1 mile hike today, and not the 2 mile one up the mountain. 
  We needed to go into Deming to Walmart (ugh) to get Peter's prescriptions.  Then, we went to a few other stores looking for an RV part we need, unsuccessfully.  We will need to wait til tomorrow when we get to El Paso, Texas, to get them.  Since we are not hooked up to the city water, and our fresh water tank is only 1/3 full, and it is supposed to freeze again tonight, we decided to eat in town.  We found a really good Italian restaurant, in a funky looking building.  They played "The Godfather" movie the whole time.  The owner was a NY city retiree.

Rock Hound State Park photos: