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From the Deserts of Texas to the Deserts of New Mexico and Arizona

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  September 28, 2024 Our report date to Furnace Creek, Death Valley is drawing near.  Just eight days to go.  But we've got some miles to go and sites to see first.  Number one after exiting Texas is Alamogordo, NM, the town adjacent to White Sands National Park.  Our last time in Alamogordo was about eight years ago and it was just a quick pass through on our way to White Sands.  This time we are staying in town at Boot Hill RV.  It's a pretty nice setup for a desert town.  It's flat, although roads and RV pads are dirt and gravel, nice landscaping, an onsite general store (strangely not open on weekends), and key coded entrance gate. Across the street, actually the highway, are two large pistachio farms.  Both have tourist attracting stores with trinkets and everything pistachio.  The pistachio ice cream was excellent! Worlds largest pistachio. September 29, 2024 White Sands is another park that has been some years since we last visited and it too has had some changes.  T
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Texas Fantastic!

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  September 23, 2024 The last post we ventured north to Carlsbad Caverns, NM and the Guadalupe Mountains of Texas.  For this day trip out of Pecos we are going south to Ft. Davis and the Davis Mountains.  When the itinerary for this trip was put together, three months in advance, the plan was to visit the McDonald Observatory atop the Davis Mountains.  But fate intervened and the observatory was closed on the days we were in the area.  So we just enjoyed the historic fort and Davis Mountains State Park.  Which by the way we were planning on a restaurant meal at their lodge but we found out it had been closed for three years while being remodeled.  Oh, well.  Time for plan B. The last time we were at Ft Davis National Historic Site the visitor center was barely more than a shack with a few artifacts in it.  Not so now.  They have converted one of the old barracks buildings into a very nice visitor center and museum. New (to us) visitor center.  A conversion of an original barracks  buil
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Civilization Is Thinning Out

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Done with our battery upgrade in Georgetown, TX we are now off to more remote areas of Texas.  Our first layover as we head south is Ozona, TX.  Just a wide spot in I-10 but the RV park fits our needs for the night and the donut shop makes a great apple fritter.  From Ozona we drifted a little further west to Pecos, TX.  We'll spend four nights here at an Escapees park, using it as our base camp for day tripping to National Parks.  We're in a straight row of 14 pull-thru RV pads and we pretty much have the place to ourselves.  We only had another overnighter twice in our four nights.  Pecos is all about oil.  There were dozens of RV parks, most of them with covered RV pads to protect the long-term residents from the scorching sun and fierce wind, and they were full.  Then there are the thousands of tiny homes and work camps with barracks-like living quarters.  All catering to oil field workers. Tra-Park, an Escapees members park in Pecos, TX is centrally located for our sightse
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