The City of Rocks State Campground has a boatload of pareidolias. We got the drone out and discovered that we parked under this skull.

Our mischievous gremlin, Duende, thought it to be a lark to turn our tilting fun house into a house of horrors. Last night I notice water dripping form V-Jer’s underbelly. That can’t be good.

In the morning, I inspected further. It seemed to be grey water, the soapy dirty stuff from the sink and shower drains. After a million phone calls to the manufacturer, NuCamp, and to their New Mexican service centers, we came up butkiss. No appointment, no help. We heard about AAA-RV and Good Sam. Supposedly, they have mobile RV repair services. Good Sam looked to be a possible solution, but I had an idea.

We headed to our next campground, a terrifically unique and very laid back state campground called City of Rocks. Once parked and nicely leveled, I noticed the leak had quit. I filled up the fresh water tank just to make sure the leak didn’t have anything to due with the fresh water system. It didn’t. Actually, nothing seems to be leaking anymore. Did Tata, our helpful gremlin return to shoo Duende away. Hmmm, it can’t be that easy.

I hooked up our portable grey water tank and completely drained the grey water. I doubt it was the tank itself. More likely a piping joint feeding into the tank that didn’t like the unleveled situation at Aguirre Springs Campground.

But, after a day’s use and even after we both took showers, everything remained dry. Worst case scenario? We keep the portable tank hooked up to keep V-Jer’s grey water tank empty. Best case? Tata came to the rescue.

The State must have spent a fortune trucking in all those rocks. Or maybe some ancient civilization erected an elaborate Stonehenge.

Silver City, some 30 miles from City of Rocks State Campground, has that elusive historic downtown that we love so much. There are the funky artists, the non-franchised local eateries, a food coop run by young idealists, the requisite craft brewery and distillery, and a handful of buildings built more than 5 years ago.

When we saw a local Mexican cafe called Jalisco, named after the Mexican state that Puerto Vallarta is located, we had to stop in for a mid-day lunch. The Puerto Vallarta area in Jalisco, Mexico, has world-class cuisine, so we were expecting good things from this Jalisco restaurant. And it was very good.

Silver City’s downtown was a colorful walk with lots of great murals and old western buildings.

The old homestead of Elizabeth Warren. No, not Senator Warren, but rather New Mexico’s first woman building contractor. By 1916, she had designed and built 50 buildings in Silver City.

Jalisco Mexican Cafe.

Puerto Vallarta in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, is known for these skeleton statues.

Back at the City of Rocks, we broke out the drone for the time on our trip. The hoodoo-like formations were a blast to scramble around on and to take aerial pictures of.

Some more drone shots.

More pareidolis. I kind of see a duck.

Here, maybe one of those Easter Island stone heads.

OK, I’ll just leave this one to your imagination.

Dave and Wanda

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