Rocks and Deserts

We stayed a few days in Deming New Mexico. Nearby is Rockhound State Park. This is one of the few parks where you are encouraged to search and keep rocks. We just spent a couple of hours but found some nice rocks.

Rest areas can be very picturesque in this area.

We’re staying near Tucson Arizona for a couple of weeks. We visited a postal museum in town. Volunteers take donated stamps and use them for school lessons as well as sell some for funds.

The best part of the RV park where we are staying are the paths that run behind the park. The land connects to Tucson Mountain Park with acres of paths.

I would mention that the cactus can be extremely painful. The paths are advertised as both hiking and biking. The problem is that the cactus grows over the paths at times. It’s hard to both navigate swells and curves without hitting cactus. Ouch!!!

The desert is gorgeous with all types of cactus along with hills to climb.

I found small surface mines on the side of some of the hills. One had several leftover old style tin cans spread around that I assume were used by the miners.