On 02/28/2006 we arrived at El Paso Roadrunner RV Park in El Paso, TX for one day. The next day 03/01/2006 we drove to the Rocky Mountain Cummins, also in El Paso, TX for engine repairs. We were there for 1 week waiting for parts and stayed in the motorhome at a RV site with electric only. The picture is the Motorhome at the Cummins site.
Then on 03/08/2006 we traveled to RV Doc’s RV Park in Las Cruces, NM. We visited White Sands National Monument on 03/11/2006. Formal recognition for the uniqueness of the white sands of southern New Mexico came on January 18, 1933, when President Herbert Hoover, acting under the authority of the “Antiquities Act of 1906”, proclaimed and established a White Sands National Monument. The picture is of the White Sands NM Dunes.
After six days we traveled on 03/14/2006 to Sagebrush RV Park in Willcox, AZ and stayed just one night so we can get back on schedule. So on 03/15/2006 we drove to The Caverns RV Resort in Hauchuca, AZ. While there we visited Tombstone, AZ on 03/17/2006. “The Town too Tough to Die,” Tombstone was perhaps the most renowned of Arizona’s old mining camps. When Ed Schieffelin (SHEF·e·lin) came to Camp Huachuca (hwah·CHEW·kuh) with a party of soldiers and left the fort to prospect, his comrades told him that he’d find his tombstone rather than silver. Thus, in 1877 Schieffelin named his first claim the Tombstone, and rumors of rich strikes made a boomtown of the settlement that adopted this name. The picture is of E Allen Street in Tombstone, AZ.
On 03/22/2006 we drove to Western Horizon Desert Shadows RV Resort in Casa Grande, AZ. On 03/24/2006 we visited the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument in Coolidge, NM. Casa Grande Ruins National Monument preserves an ancient Hohokam farming community and “Great House.” Created as the nation’s first archaeological reserve in 1892, the site was declared a National Monument in 1918 “in order that better provision may be made for the protection, preservation and care of the ruins and the ancient buildings and other objects of prehistoric interest thereon.” The picture is of the Big House.
