Today we made changes in our Itineraries 2013 page... we want to leave much earlier here than initially planned.
There are several reasons for it but the most important is that we cannot sit outside because of the ever-present winds and high wind gusts, which prevent us from rolling our awning out. We cannot afford to have it damaged and we cannot sit out in the sun. The convenience living here and have Walmart one mile away does not make up anymore for us feeling alone here - no contact to other campers. I tried and introduced ourselves to several, but no response. Hardly anyone is outside besides people walking their dogs shortly. Most campers here are permanent residents and seem to be not interested in traveling ones. We want to be in St. David, AZ for 3 weeks ( it is our Western Horizon Resorts Home Park) and arrive in Florence, AZ on August 05. We pay our lease money there since beginning June anyway. We are aware that the month of August will be still hot, but it will be not more worse than here in Deming in June, where the temps reach their high. We are looking forward to seeing our old lot again.
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Thunderstorms are somewhere in the neighborhood and winds picked up.
Suddenly we spotted a big tumbleweed ..... I grabbed my camera and catched it showing also our RV in the background. A while later it was gone....... It is getting very warm here in Deming - but not so much as in Florence, AZ.
The difference is about 10 degr. F. Today we will have 102 degr.F., which is about 38 Grad Celsius. That is the shade temperature, of course. Dieter had the long awning out in order to keep the sun from the entrance side to help our air conditioning budget. We knew there were thunderstorms in the forecast with high wind gusts etc. In the afternoon the sky darkened and we heard distant thunder. Dieter was just finished to roll the awning back up and had secured everything, when we noticed that the mountains next to us were shrouded in a desert color.....the wind picked up and with it came the "brown-out", the yellow blizzard of sand. Those sandstorms are something else....we watched the cedars bending down in the howling wind and the visibility was almost zero. We just could see the outline of the trees and the clubhouse, our neighboring white RV's just disappeared.... when it started to subside a little, I took a picture from the entrance door. It can give you only a hint of what happened. Shortly after the rain started. Big drops ( in Las Cruces hail the size of golf balls ) and the sand in the air combined made everything real dirty... Dieter cleaned the steps this morning, a thick layer of brown sand was everywere. The truck got hosed down this morning and the trailer has to wait until the next rain comes.... |
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