December 27-28, 2024 Deming, New Mexico To Wilcox, Arizona

 62, partly sunny and very windy today.

Organ mountains on our way to Deming. Very windy and dusty drive.

We filled up with $3.05 fuel, painted water tower in Las Cruses, giant road runner sculpture in Las Cruses,  one of the slides came in weird and damaged part of our floor. Boo. John in the wind and dust with the bus. 

We are now parked at Harvest Host Les Combes vineyards.

Our view of the Florida Mountains from the vineyard. I got 70 pairs of earrings, that I glued the other day wired and carded. What a job. Still have more to do. 

I finished this basket today. It is made from natural and dyed pine needles, polyester thread, glass and metal beads and the center is piece of slate tile that I sandblasted and painted a raven on. It is 10 x 9 x 2 inches. Sunset from camp.

The  Peloncillo mountains coming over the pass into Arizona. We are now camped at  a commercial park-Fort Wilcox.

We went out east of town to watch the cranes come in at sunset, but they were already there. Thousands of them.

Cranes were still coming in.

Cranes coming in for a landing. Sunset starting with cranes.

Sunset and cranes. 

The cranes are magical to watch and with sunset just break taking. 

After watching the cranes it was too late to cook dinner, so John took me out to Isabelle's  South of the 

Border. It was yummy.  I ordered an excellent  margarita and it was bigger than my head! We filled up on cheaper fuel. Welcome to Arizona the Grand Canyon State, from the restaurant- I lick the salt, swallow the tequila and suck the lime. Also One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.