Up at dawn to bird Bosque for an hour. Thousands of sandhill cranes. Thousands of snow geese. Then back to the motorhome to follow the Rio Grande for another hundred miles south, while it followed the eastern side of the continental divide south. We left the Rio Grande at Hatch. We’ll catch up with it again in December when we’re headed for Texas. We’ll cross it at Las Cruces, then stay north and east of it from El Paso on, since it describes the US/Mexican border from there to the Gulf of Mexico. We’ve come far enough south now, that we’re back into fall.
Southwest at Hatch on the cut-off road, amid cotton fields and chilies. Interstate 10 and lunch at Deming. West through the New Mexico/Arizona desert, past jagged sky islands; northern tips of Mexican mountain ranges just poking over the border, and bringing their southern wildlife species, into our desert southwest. Through Lordsburg, into Arizona, Willcox, Texas Canyon, and Benson. Highway 90 south to Karchner Caverns State Park. A familiar campground. Got the usual spot. We’ll stay here a couple days.
Last night at Bosque we left the water hooked up all night. It was thirty-seven degrees.
