Entering New Mexico!

After 7+ consecutive weeks in Arizona (9+ weeks counting the time we were in Quartzsite, with a short interruption to return to Las Vegas for the Bluebird rally there), we've entered New Mexico.

A picture from last night - Miss Kitty and Tabitha were wanting food... we think that Tabitha had helped herself to Miss Kitty's food while we were away from the bus yesterday having lunch with Ginny - there was a lot less food in Miss Kitty's dish in the afternoon than is normal for Miss Kitty's consumption. So, I gave Miss Kitty the food that I would normally give Tabitha at 6pm. When Tabitha starts begging for food in the evening, Miss Kitty joins in with her most of the time, even if Miss Kitty still has food in her dish. Tabitha's technique is to bump the shoe rack that is hanging on the bathroom door (just to the right of her in this picture). It certainly gets our attention, if not accomplishing her purpose (I feed her a specific amount at specific times of the day and her begging does not alter the schedule!).

This morning Miss Kitty was enjoying the sunshine on the front dash, with her food up on the dash -- its normal location ... theoretically inaccessible to Tabitha (she would have to brave the "dangers" of coming to the front of the bus *and* jump up onto the dash) - but when we are driving, I put Miss Kitty's food on the floor because sometimes the rocking and rolling of the bus causes things on the dash to fall off.

The mountains around our campground in Bowie, AZ this morning

"Dwayne's Mt View RV Park"

Beautiful! I-10 was just south of us, and the railroad track just north of us and some people might find it noisy, but we had a good sleep and awoke refreshed and ready to go this morning!

Not too many miles later, we entered New Mexico.

 There are directions on signs along I-10 on what to do in a dust storm...

"In a dust storm"

"Pull off roadway"

"Turn vehicle off"

"Feet off brakes"

"Stay buckled"

My understanding is that they recommend no lights or brakes (lights) when you are stopped because vehicles that may still be traveling may see the lights, think that you are a moving vehicle, and try to follow you (like in fog, depending that the vehicle ahead of you can see further than you can and trusting in that for safety).

I was remembering that the last time we came through this area was December, 2016, and we ran into dust storms as we were leaving Texas (http://trekincartwrights.blogspot.com/2016/12/no-lights-marfa-mystery-lights-that-is.html). Today looks clear so far!