{"id":1329,"date":"2008-04-08T21:43:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T03:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2008-04-08T21:43:27","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T03:43:27","slug":"rock-hound-state-park-deming-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"Rock Hound State Park, Deming NM"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Airstream is back on the road! \u00a0 We’re starting off easy, with a 200 mile drive to Deming NM to visit one of Emma’s favorite parks: Rock Hound State Park. \u00a0 It’s a beautifully scenic hillside park at about 5,400 ft altitude.<\/p>\n

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We got a short campsite with an overhang, which presented a fine opportunity to inspect the Airstream’s underside belly pan. \u00a0 For once I didn’t have to bend over to get things out of the rear compartment, either. \u00a0 But Emma found the concept of her bed hanging out in space to be disconcerting. \u00a0 Eleanor suggested she could sleep up front in my place, and once that idea was proposed Emma was not interested in explanations about why it made no difference where we were parked. \u00a0 So I get the back bed tonight.<\/p>\n

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Being a short drive, we had plenty of time in the afternoon to go for a hike and rock-hunting foray. \u00a0 This park is loaded with jasper, which you can find and take home (up to 15 lbs). \u00a0 Even if you aren’t interested in rocks, the views are spectacular in all directions.<\/p>\n

The plants here are telling us we are no longer in the Sonoran Desert. \u00a0 We are now in the Chihuahuan Desert, which extends into Texas. \u00a0 No more tall saguaros, but there are lots of nasty sharp lechiguillas to watch out for along the trails.<\/p>\n

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We’re all tired. \u00a0 The past few days of packing up and finalizing the house have taken a toll on us. \u00a0 We could use a few good nights of sleep. For a couple of days we will take it as easy as possible. \u00a0 I think the Big Bend portion of the trip will rejuvenate us.<\/p>\n

Our coordinates tonight: \u00a0 \u00a0 32 \u00b011’13.76″N \u00a0 107 \u00b036’47.13″W<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Airstream is back on the road! \u00a0 We’re starting off easy, with a 200 mile drive to Deming NM to visit one of Emma’s favorite parks: Rock Hound State Park. \u00a0 It’s a beautifully scenic hillside park at about 5,400 ft altitude. We got a short campsite with an overhang, which presented a fine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}