April 23 - 24
Rockhound State Park is located a few miles east of the town of Deming. This is a beautiful park with awesome campsites. Our campsite was very large with nice landscaping of cactus and rocks. The park is surrounded by the Florida Mountains. The weather was cool and sunny, but the wind was kicking up to 35mph. The first night the trailer was rocking with the wind howling most of the night. By the next morning the wind died down and we went on a short hike on some trails around the park. This park is known for semi-precious stones and rocks. The main activity here is to look for these rocks. Later in the day, we were trying to determine where we could go hiking in the area where it might be more challenging. There was also no mountain biking within 30 miles, so Kurt and I decided to do a hike in Spring Canyon, which is on the south side of Rockhound Park. This was a nice hike back in a canyon to Lovers Leap. It was steep with a small elevation gain, and we enjoyed the scenery and the exercise.
After getting back to camp, we had discovered that a wind
storm was heading our way and may affect our travel in 2 days to our next
location. We were told that if the winds go over 50 mph, they could shut down
I-10, which could be a problem for us. So we all decided to leave the next day
and arrive in Tucson a day earlier.
That evening, the wind had died down and we were able to
have a nice campfire. We sat up until late looking at the amazing stars and searching
for meteors. We saw a couple of meteors, but it was getting really late and we
wanted to get an earlier start on the road in the morning.
We were ready to head to Tucson and see what that area has
to offer.
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