10 months 'til Christmas !!!!!!!!!

Our short drive today ( Thursday) saw the landscape become more and more desert like. We only travelled about 45 miles from El Paso TX to Vado NM which is about 15 miles from Las Cruces NM. Yesterday, we did a tour of the Border Patrol Museum in El Paso and went to an interesting shop called El Paso Saddleblanket wholesale. They sell everything western, from saddles to jewellery and furniture. On the way to Vado, we passed a couple of feed lots. The pic shows a small one, of about 300 head, the larger one we passed was likely over a 1000. The second picture is outside our trailer in the RV Park at Vado. The desert sand is very much like beach sand,about the same temp too, at 65F. Our expected stay here is for two nights before going on to Silver City NM, where we have booked another 2 nights. We ate a great at a very Mexican restaurant for lunch yesterday, where Sue had a chance to try her Spanish, as the wait staff didn't speak too much English....however, they returned her linguist attempt in English.