2011 Chapter 2

After 172 miles of uneventful driving, we arrived in Deming, New Mexico about 1:30pm on Wed. April 20th. I got dinner in the crock pot right away and at 4:00 we went to the rec room for the social hour & met a few of the other campers in the park. Rich & I got so many suggestions of "MUST SEEs" in Nova Scotia, we may have to extend our stay!! Thursday we drove into downtown Deming to visit the Deming Luna Mimbres Museum & Custom House. In one of the rooms they had the Honor Tree.

 I added my dad's name to the Honor Tree and

Norm & Cheryl added Norm's brother, Doug.

One of the volunteers in the museum highly recommended a restaurant, Sparky's, in Hatch for lunch. He said they had the BEST Green-Chili Cheese Burger. So we drove 46 miles to Sparky's. Food was very good BUT we all agreed it is a ONE TIME 46 mile "must do".

The Colonel, Ronald McDonald, and Uncle Sam were all out front.

Friday we drove 340 miles to Fort Stockton, TX to stay in the Walmart parking lot for the night. AND of course, we can't stay in their parking lot and NOT go shopping! So the boys did their shopping first and then Cheryl & I did ours. The only difference was when Cheryl & I went into the store we had to contend with the BATS flying around the store!! Yes, there were SEVERAL bats!!!