Seminole Canyon Shaman
We left Patagonia for a long, 8-hour drive to Eagle’s Nest RV just off of Interstate 10 in Van Horn Texas. The second leg of this segment was also long and made longer by a flat tire on the Airstream (you recall we also suffered a flat in Gadsden, AL). Eventually we reached the second of our favorite state parks in this part of the countrySeminole Canyon SP. The surrounding land is Chihuahuan Desert and the canyons in this area contain many distinctive early Native American pictographs. The statue next to the park visitor’s center shows a common theme in many of the pictographsa shaman.
The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more 
