Feb 28 - Heading off to El Paso, Texas

  We had a really nice chat with the new owner of this RV park, who was originally from the New England area.  As we were leaving, she took the photo below of our RV, passing in front of the Florida mountain range.
  The trip to El Paso, Texas was short (relatively).  And, we didn't realize how BIG a city El Paso is. It is 35 miles across, from west to east.  The terrain, again, is changing.  Fewer sky island mountain ranges, more flat basins, more sandy soil.  The north western side of El Paso, seems to be developing in the yuppy-style.  We stopped at Whole Foods, and did our shopping--resupplying items not found at the regular grocery stores.
  The Mission RV Park, where we are staying, is probably one of the worst places we have stayed at.  It is clean, and there is a nice "club house" with laundry, pool and sauna, showers.  However, it is a parking lot in the middle of a industrial area of eastern El Paso.  So, our site is narrow, with just room to lay out our patio mat (barely) and no picnic table.  It does have full hook-up, and our water issue does seem to be resolved, for the time being.  Our "view" is of a stone wall, with barbed wire, overlooking a shipping container holding yard.  Fortunately, when we are here at the RV, we are working on our computers, and otherwise, we are out and about.  So, it works for a few days.

Leaving El Rancho Lobo RV park, Deming, NM photo:

Zoom in, that's our RV in front of the mountain range.

Mission RV Park site photo: