This morning’s destination…. Silver City New Mexico. But how can you go through an entire day driving down the road, without changing the target a few times? We considered Las Vegas, decided to go to City of Rocks, ultimately ending up in Lordsburg.
Normally, a person wouldn’t spend the night in Lordsburg on purpose. Lordsburg is the place you stop for the night when you can’t make it all the way to the place you really meant to go.
Except for us. We’re still in New Mexico, but within perfect striking distance of the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona, a “sky island” in the desert. It is perfectly isolated in Arizona, but within the range of several Mexican species of birds that are found nowhere else in the United States. Tomorrow’s target birds are: Mexican chickadee, juniper titmouse, and yellow eyed junco.
We covered a lot of thermometer today. We went from twenty-five degrees this morning to seventy-five degrees this afternoon. We don't have to unhook the hoses tonight. It won't go below freezing.
