Pancho Villa State Park, New Mexico

Wish I could remember who told me about Pancho Villa State Park in New Mexico. I’d like to thank her. It is really a beautiful RV Park built on the remains of Fort Furlong. We’re about 3 miles from the Mexican boarder and 35 miles south of Deming. A flat arid land surrounded by Owyhee like mountains. Cactus abound, as well as birds.

The State of New Mexico is building a new museum, opening in March, but we got a preview (by just walking in), so I snapped a few pictures. There are even a few of the original “tanks”. In about 1911, the first motorized military machines were here. Of course they had to bring gas in by mule and horse. Makes sense.

We stayed a couple of nights in El Paso. Took a drive up to Cloudcroft and Alamogordo. That area is booming. New subdivisions everywhere. It was cold in the mountains, but pretty. At 8 or 9,000 feet there were Ponderosas and other pines. No fir. We kept a look out for wild animals, but only saw deer and turkey. There are so many of them, we don’t even consider them wild anymore.

The library here in town, (Columbus) has great internet service, it’s warm, TV reception is good, we have electricity and water, so we’ll probably be here for a week. Amazing how little it takes anymore to “survive”.