14 Bazillion gazillion miles away

Clicking the pics will take you from Rockhound State Park to Deming New Mexico, but they won't bring you back.

My last sunset at Rockhound State Park, probably until next year. I enjoyed my stay there much better now that I can Park in any campsite At Rockhound.

I left Rockhound late morning and, in 15 minutes, was pulling into a propane refill place at one of the RV parks on Main Street, and $17 later, I turned into the Walmart parking lot to spend the night. There were still three or four RVs there that looked like they had already spent the night, and that's always a good sign for us lethargic lot lizards.

I have a reservation [Good Grief, I hate that word] for a one-night stay at the City of Rocks State Park about 30 miles from here, so I know for sure where I'll be tomorrow, but I don't necessarily consider that a good thing.

 I would much prefer to spend a week there, but I don't see a way that could possibly happen. So after I leave there, I'll be somewhere, as opposed to nowhere, but wherever it is, it won't have a reservation connected with it.

City of Rocks State Park is one of those places out in the middle of nowhere where it's dark, very very dark, so it's easy to see stars and planets and things like that. They have a small observatory built there, and folks that like to spend time looking off into space, like to spend time at the City Of Rocks..... Looking off into space.

Some people take that activity very seriously, but I would be more interested in who's looking back at me. All the campsites there are named after planets or galaxies or something that sounds spacey. The campsite I'm staying in is named Corona Borealis, whatever the heck that is. All I know is I had to top up the fuel tank in my truck because it's about 14 million light-years away, and I'm not sure I'm going to get there and back with a one night stay.

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I think it's kind of strange that I can Park in the tiniest campsites at Rockhound in the bronco, and yet both sites they put me in this time were big enough to easily park the Arctic Fox.

The town of Deming is very proud of this steam train and yet they put an 8 foot tall chain-link fence around the entire thing so it's impossible to get a decent picture. Most old museum trains like this just have a "keep off" sign.

 Looks like Deming New Mexico no longer has a car dealer.

I've always liked old windmills. This one has a normal antique pump but the fan blades are very high-tech looking even though I think their antiques also.