We are in Columbus, NM

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April 9, 2018

I am starting this post with a few more pictures of Rusty's RV Ranch in Rodeo, NM that I took this morning as we prepared to leave.

Wonderful long sites, information about the park says 200 feet, and the
way they are laid out you feel the privacy.

Between these pictures and yesterday's post I am pretty sure you can tell we loved it here.

The only draw back, as I mentioned was the lack of an AT&T signal but with the excellent WiFi provided at the park we can make do.

One more bit of information, all the electricity at this park is provided by an array of Solar panels located just behind our site and we had 50amps.

After reading, Al and Kelly's Blog,  Travel With The Bayfield Bunch and Doug's Blog, Miss Adventure Travels, about their drive through New Mexico on their respective trips southwest to escape the snowy northeast in January. I decided to do some research and the results, after talking with Tom, is the trek we are on now as we head back to the northeast. Thank you, Al and Doug for the information. Rodeo, NM was a great stop and we hope to head back there again in the future and now Columbus, NM is certainly a wonderful gem to be enjoyed. The history here is something we are going to thoroughly enjoy exploring. We spent a short time yesterday, only about an hour after we set up, at the Pancho Villa State Park Visitor Center. The gentleman we met was a wealth of information about the history of the area and we are looking forward to going back this coming Friday, the next time he volunteers, to continue our education. We only hope nothing changes his schedule and he is there. 

As of today, we have officially pointed the Stinger "B" east as we begin our slow trek back to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. From now on we will either be traveling east or north with a plan to stay as far south in the warmer temperatures as long as we can.

Some of the distance views

as we made our way east

on NM-9 to our next destination.

Because I read the blogs I mentioned above we made one stop today.

Through the Cafe's window.

A place to sit if the line was long.

No gas today.

Then I noticed this place, so maybe we could get gas here if needed.

Forever

frozen in time.

We continue to see lots of Century Plants.

I love seeing windmills in the distance.

We are near the border and the Border Patrol is ever present.

Then in the distance the green

and then this sign.

You cannot tell from the pictures but these fields are rows and rows of onions.

Fence posts but no fence.
We did not see and cattle except in the distance.

Then Columbus was just ahead

and we turned right at the entrance to the Pancho Villa State Park.

This is the site we picked, water and electricity. We found a 50 amp pedestal.

This park, even though we have seen a couple of occupied Camp Host sites, is self serve with a couple of pay sites throughout the park. We thought we would have to pay more for the 50 amps, most of the sites are 30 amp, but according to the information it is $14 a night for electricity and water. Our original plan, you all know about the "plan", was to spend 3 nights here. Then we took the time to check the weather ahead and found out the entire route to our next destination will have high winds Thursday and Friday, which would be two of our travel days. So, new "plan", we will stay put here until Saturday morning and enjoy every minute.

Note: We do have an AT&T signal here but our hotspot internet is intermittent, slow and weak. 

We had a great travel day, blue skies and hardly any wind, and have arrived at a wonderful spot to spend our next few days. We are looking forward to doing a little exploring maybe even heading 

over the Pink Store in Palomas, Mexico we have heard about. Really not sure what the next few 

days will hold for us but I do know we will enjoy each of them as they unfold. 

Hope you will be able to say the same as each of your days unfold.

If you would like to leave a comment we would enjoy hearing from you.