We’re at Hacienda RV Park in Las Cruces tonight.
What a difference a few degrees makes. We’ve been in the high nineties the last few weeks, and have been just fine. Getting back out along the Interstate route and into the triple digits; that’s a little much. High nineties feels nice and hot; what you’d expect in the desert. Triple digits; brutal. I would take a picture to show how hot it is, but can’t seem to get it framed right. My daily walks will have to happen after dark for a while.
We drove early, stopped early, and stayed inside most of the afternoon (except we went back out for a teriyaki chicken bowl for me for dinner). Tomorrow…..more of the same. Triple digits. (Except maybe without the chicken bowl).
Two days, two time zones. Uh oh. We’ve got some adjusting to do. Arizona was Mountain Time, but Mountain Standard, not Mountain Daylight. So even though we were camped in New Mexico, Mountain Daylight, we were right on the border with Arizona, Mountain Standard, where we spent any time we were out and about, so essentially we just stayed on Mountain Standard (same as Pacific Daylight). Tomorrow we cross another time zone, to Central Time, even though we haven’t adapted to this one yet.
We missed three birds we were looking for in Arizona: five striped sparrow, red faced warbler, and elegant trogon. No problem; that just leaves us reason to return to Arizona and search again next year. We have gotten our year-list to 393, only 7 birds short of the 400 we want for the year. We’re way ahead of last year in that regard.
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