We spent the day traveling from Carlsbad to Deming New Mexico, about 266 miles, give or take a few feet. Not too far south of Carlsbad lies the Guadaloupe Mountains and the south end was a high peak of limestone cliff, called El Capitan. It is hard to believe that this mountain was once a reef teaming with life in a great sea. The great Earth does some stupendous things to our geology.
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| El Capitan |
After leaving the Guadaloupe Mtns, the terrain flatten out and we were in the middle of a very large salt lake, completely dry, and stretching for miles.
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| Salt Lake dry as a bone |
The route through El Paso mapped out by Streets and Trips, which avoided the downtown area. Big mistake…this route took us over a ridge with steep long climbs and then down the other side. OK for cars and the view was nice, but not nice for big rigs. The other way would have been much flatter.
We stayed the night in Deming at the WalMart campground, aka mall. There were 14 rigs there with us! Popular spot.
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