1/20/10 - Leaving Los Cruses & Bubba's RV Park

Photos:  http://silverserenity.shutterfly.com/99 Hot Springs to Las Cruses
             http://silverserenity.shutterfly.com/126 Las Cruses to Deming

It is 3:15pm and we are leaving Los Cruses, New Mexico. We called Silver City, NM to check on weather and campgrounds. They told us that Mesa Campground was a good one. The weather is cold there. It snowed last night and they are expecting more.


There is a stupid terrible wind blowing right at us. Of course this is hard on not only gas mileage but Thomas as well. He hates to drive in a hard wind.

We came on a Border Patrol check point. The RV in front of us was from NC. After looking closer, it had a dealership tag on it from Shelby, NC. As soon as they cleared the check point, they took off and we never could catch up to them. Oh, well.

With the wind still in our face, we decided to stop in Deming for the night. We found the local Wal Mart. After pulling in, we stopped to see where the RV’s were parking and just get a feel for the place. The security guard pulled up and got out to talk with us.

Seems that his name is “Bubba” Smith and “that over there is what I call Bubba’s RV Park!” He was referring to the area where we are to park. He said RV’s were welcome to stay up to 3 days – more if there was bad weather. Bubba’s brother work the later shift starting at 7pm.

Bubba also told us about the bad storm coming in and we should hole up here for a few days. They are expecting bad wind, rain, and snow. We shouldn’t try to leave out and head for Tucson for a day or so.

That night, it was like someone put up a sign on interstate advertising Bubba’s RV Park. There were 30 units there when I counted. Wow! Looked like a mish-mash of everything from really older travel trailers to a huge black and silver motor home which had no identification as to make or model on it. This unit would probably go upwards of $500,000 easy. Even with all the bad weather, it was a shiny as a mirror. You just had the feel to keep away from it.

With the weather that Bubba and the Weather Chanel are calling for, maybe it will be the smartest for us to just hang out here and let some of this pass before moving on.



Hope everyone is doing well………