Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Sunrise RV Park, Deming, NM - Mar 18-22
This park was picked for two reasons -- relatively low price ($13/night) and having cable TV so we could watch the Women's NCAA Basketball Tournament on ESPN/ESPN2. It seems we usually don't time it 
well enough to watch as many games as we would like to, so we are spending 4 days watching/taping all the basketball we can fit in. The first night we were here, our friend Jessica Piasecke (the woman who studied elk at Chaco!) came over from Las Cruces and spent the night. We had a great time playing games, eating, birdwatching at the local cemetery and visiting.
We're on our way to Chaco Canyon from Tucson. There was an abundance of desert wildflowers around Tucson (Saguaro Natl Park West and Ironwood Natl Monument were two memorable areas) as well as incredible Mexican poppies on I-10 by the Arizona/New Mexico border and around Deming.We hope to load up on groceries (for Chaco) and visit the nearby border town of Palomas, Mexico, for lunch at the Pink Door.
The cats have handled the adjustment from sitting in one place to traveling well so far. I'm sure we will hear plenty of complaints on the bumpy dirt road!!
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 8:18 PM 
