Mon, 20 January, 2014 We decided against going into Mexico and drove north instead after stopping a few minutes at the visitor center. They had memorabilia of the town’s claim to fame, Pancho Villa’s incursion into the US at Columbus, NM. We drove on to Deming, where we did a little shopping. Then, after calling Rockhound SP again, and finding they were still full, we drove on to City of Rocks State Park near Faywood, NM. It’s a beautiful little park that is pretty much a pile of boulders in the middle of the desert. Apparently it’s the result of a volcanic explosion some 35 million years ago, and we were told, the boulders are ash, not volcanic rock. I don’t know about that, but the camp sites are tucked nicely in between the boulders with
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