Las Cruces, New Mexico

Before I go any further you should know this: we are not the fastest people in the world when it's time to get ourselves together to prepare for the day. We get up at 6:00am +/- one hour. I have the morning duty of walking and feeding the dogs, then I make my first cup of coffee (I love having our Keuring machine along!), and then I get on the computer checking my mail, Facebook, and financial stuff. And now I'm writing this blog in the morning hours.

With all of this in mind, we didn't leave Tucson until 11:30am headed toward New Mexico. It's not a very interesting trip on I-10, quite boring as a matter of fact. Add that to 108° heat and you begin to think you're at the gates of hell!

It was too hot to stop and make lunch on the road so we had our first McDonald's stop on this trip in Lordsburg, NM.

We continued on to Las Cruces, NM and are currently staying at the Hacienda RV and Rally Resort. A nice, modern, and clean site with a pull-through site so we don't have to disconnect the truck from the fifth wheel for the night. We just parked, plugged into the power grid, opened the slides and turned on both air-conditioners to full blast. In this heat it took a while to cool the living space, but we love having two air-conditioners, since one would not have cut it.

We fired up the satellite and antenna and watching the news one of the main stories is the heat wave in the Southwest, supposedly the "once in a century" heat wave. Great! What luck!

This morning we woke up to an overcast sky, a definite relief. Oh, and we probably won't get started until 11am today either (but cut us a little slack, we're now in the Mountain Time Zone, so we lost an hour!).


Maximum temperature: 108°
Miles traveled: 277

Las Cruces Hacienda RV Resort

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