Deming, NM to Las Cruces, NM (3/4/10)
4 March 2010Moving briskly along the State of New Mexico brings us to Las Cruces.
The ride along I-10 for the past day or so has been pretty dreary. Lots of open space, very little development between towns. Occasionally there is a store for tourists, usually preceded by 20 miles of billboards. New Mexico allows the sale of fireworks, but so far, I’ve resisted.
We were expecting mail at General Delivery, but the package was not there yet. A necessary evil of traveling and relying on mail forwarding. We booked into the Elks Lodge for the night, and possibly the weekend. I need to do some work, so we were not planning on traveling at all until mid-next week. Whether we stayed in Las Cruces or El Paso was an open question. Until I visit the post office, it remains open.
After the post office debacle, and a good lunch (love those green chili peppers) we booked into the Elks Lodge and then hit the Las Cruces Railroad Museum. The museum, I’m sorry to say, is pretty basic. The highlight is the two HO layouts. I have some photos, which will be added to this posting in the next few days.
We’ve reached quite a milestone. When we get to El Paso, either tomorrow or next week, we will have come more than half the distance from Los Angeles to Livingston, Texas.
Here are some stats:
- We’ve been on the road for ten days.
- We’ve traveled for six of those days, and stayed put for four of them. A few travel days were very short.
- We have stayed in two commercial campgrounds and four Elks Lodges.
- Our average cost per night is $23.70, compared with our budge of $20/night. We need eight nights at $15/night to get under our budgetary average.
- I don’t have fuel figures handy, but we seem to be averaging 12 mpg.
We plan to stay in either Las Cruces or El Paso until about Wednesday of next week.
2 Responses to “Deming, NM to Las Cruces, NM (3/4/10)”
March 5th, 2010 at 8:42 am
La Posta Restaurant in Mesilla!!!!!!!!!!!!
I still dream of going back there. :-)
[Response: We have one more day to try this.]
March 5th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
Got room for me in your pocket?