City of Rocks State Park NM

We are currently camping at City of Rocks State Park in New Mexico. Still in New Mexico?! you say? Yep, that’s right. For some reason, we just can’t seem to get out of this state (well, except for a couple of weeks in extreme West Texas). There were a lot of things we wanted to see in New Mexico during our Winter Workamping that turned out to be a little too far away from Truth or Consequences for our weekly three days off. We had driven to City of Rocks before (back in December) and really liked it, so we decided we’d have to camp here after our workamping experience – if only to see the stars properly, as it is very remote here and the stargazing is the best we’ve seen since we were in the Dry Tortugas back in the 1980s.

So, here we are. We spent the last three days dry-camping (or boondocking) at site 45 right up next to a beautiful rock formation (in fact, right behind the rocks in this picture). We spent time hiking and exploring the formations and started our new hobby, geocaching (see Chuck’s posts about that). Tonight we’re in site E8 (water & electric) only because we ran out of water (our gauges don’t work for our fresh water tank and we must not have filled it more that 1/3 full as it didn’t last long despite our VERY conservative usage) and the wind picked up (yet again) and the gusts of 50 mph were getting a bit much in the really exposed side of the park so we decided to move for the night. We were going to head out today, but the wind advisory was right about it being too dangerous for high-profile vehicles like our 5th wheel, so we decided to stay put for the day. Tomorrow we head out for the Gila National Forest area of New Mexico. We’re planning on seeing the Gila Cliffs National Park and The Catwalk. We’ll be staying in Glenwood. We think another week in NM and we’ll be ready to finally move on. Next state… Arizona!