Some Day is Here: riding across the desert from El Paso, Texas to Tucson, Arizona

We traveled 311 miles today and set camp for two nights in the Agave Gulch FamCamp on Davis Monthan AFB. It reached 106 degrees with 5% humidity today. Way too hot for me. After we had rested a bit, Bruce and I visited the Commissary and restocked our cabinets and refigerator!! Petie does NOT like the HOT sand and rocks. NO grass here, just cacti.
We left El Paso about 7am.

Pete and Jean led the way

it was mountainous travel beginning our journey, with a town/village to our left....?Mexico.

We visited our best friend again...Flying J at the last Texas Interstate exit.

New Mexico

Dairy farms

? pecan groves

We were stopped and asked if we were both US citizens!!!

Las Cruces, New Mexico... interstate 10 crosses the Rio Grande River. The Rio grande is a river that flows from southwestern Colorado in the US to the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way, it forms part of the Mexico--US border Its total length was measured 1896 miles according to the international Boundary and Water Commision. Depending on how it is measured, the Rio Grande River is the fourth or fifth longest river system in North America.

We also saw vineyards and a winery...certainly irrigation has to be a necessity. We also were warned many times about dust storms and low to no visibility.

Steins, New Mexico....Stein Ghost Town, New Mexico in Stein's Pass of hildalgo County, NM.
It was originaly called Stein's Pass after the nearby pass through the Peloncillo Mountains. The town was established in 1880 as a settlement along the Southern Pacific Railroad. Stein had no natural source of water so all water had to be brought by train. In 1905 a rock-crushing plant was built to produce track ballast for the railroad. By 1910 census in Steins had itspeak population of 1300 people. in 1944, toward the end of WWII, the railway ceased operations at the Steins Quarry and gave notice it would no longer subsidize water deliveries. The Railroad offered to the inhabitants of Steins free transport elsewhere. Thus, causing the demise of Steins...a railroad settlement versus a mining settlement.