Rain

I ended up spending only one night at the Gila Cliff Dwellings. I did everything the park had to offer in one afternoon. But far from being boring, the park was a very charming place. It was high up in the mountains around 8,000 feet with all different kinds of trees growing. There was a river running through the park and yellow and purple wildflowers all over the campground. I was pretty darn far away from the desert. On the down side, the temperature drops a lot at night when you're up that high, and the next morning it was soooo hard to get out of bed!
I drove to a state park in outside the town of Alamogordo. My plan was to stay for a couple nights and go check out White Sands National Park today. However, when I woke up this morning it was raining with high winds. I think I'll spend the day in town instead. It's looking like a good laundry day.
One thing I never expected about New Mexico is how green it is here. The parts I've been through are covered with green plant life. Grass thrives here better than most places in California. And if you can deal with wind, it's a beautiful state.
I ran into some more boarder patrol guys yesterday and made myself look like a fool. When you spend a lot of time driving, you sometimes forget where you are and where you're going. So when the BP guy asked me 'Where are you coming from' and 'Where are you going' it took me longer than it should have to respond. I had to look at my map to remember.