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62nd Stop - Guadalupe Mountains National Park, TX

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Blog Post #73 - Written June 9, 2026 Stay: October 23-24, 2025 We bid New Mexico goodbye (for now) and ventured into the panhandle of Texas to see the Guadalupe Mountains National Park.  On our drive, we could see Mexico, but did not cross the border.   Our campground was simple, but unique.  The owners of Mountain View RV Park installed these fun sculptures around the campsites.  The kids loved climbing on them.  I was only slightly nervous about their exploration of the campground, since the hosts said that they had seen a few rattlesnakes around. (I hadn't quite recovered from our Joshua Tree incident...)  But instead of rattlesnakes, they found 2 black widows! How exciting  ;) We took the next day to go explore the Guadalupe Mountains National Park (which, I'll admit, I had never heard of before this trip).  The mountains are quite imposing, mostly because the rest of the landscape is extremely flat.   The Mountains are really t...
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61st Stop - Deming, NM

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Blog Post #72 - Written May 28, 2026 Stay: October 22, 2025 We pulled into our next Harvest Host, Mountain View Acres, late in the evening.  The kids needed to get some energy out, so Gary took them on a hike/run to the far corner of the property while I cooked dinner and got the rooms set up.   Since it was dark when we arrived, we didn't get to appreciate the views from our campground until the next morning.   Our host's neighbors gave us a sweet welcome to New Mexico. And yes... Highland Cows are really that adorable! Our host's property was full of unique desert life, with bugs, spiders, and thorny plants.  We originally came to Deming to check out City of Rocks State Park.  But instead, we decided to try our luck at Rockhound State Park.  Our goal was to find the elusive Thunder Egg.  Alas, we did not find any... BUT....  We found some awesome grasshoppers. I mean, wow! I had never imagined that they could be considered beautiful....
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60th Stop - Tombstone and Wilcox, AZ

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Blog Post #71 - Written May 25, 2026 Stay: October 20-21, 2025 So, I had secretly hoped that we would be able to go to Tombstone, AZ during our trip.  I remembered going as a kid and it was like stepping back in time.  Our original plan didn't have us going down that far south in AZ, so I thought it would have to be another trip.   BUT... since all of our plans changed, we were in the far remote corner of AZ and decided to make the drive out! Tombstone is still a fun tourist town, but full of history.  We enjoyed learning about the mad rush of people coming to mine silver in Tombstone.  And the embalming process (pics below). They have this Cyclorama, a moving diorama with narration.  We walked around the museums, trying to lasso a "cow", riding in wagons and buggies, and watching the blacksmith, until it was our turn to go to the notorious O.K. Corral.  They had a blacksmith forging various trinkets. They have a live reenactment of the infamous s...
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