Our first thought was to stop in Deming at the SKP park, but it was still early when we arrived so we kept driving--destination Leasburg Dam State Park north of Las Cruces. It was a nice drive, but we were disappointed to find no vacancies at the campground when we arrived! The host was as surprised as we were. He said it never filled!
On to our next option--head for Caballo Lake State Park and hope there were empty sites. It was dark when we arrived, but we easily found a site. The next morning we explored the campground and found that we preferred the riverside campground better than lakeside so we packed our things and move to riverside. Once we were settled we went geocaching. We found several and then returned to the rv. We plotted our next sightseeing trip and Bob downloaded the caches we could find as we traveled to Chloride, a ghost town northwest of Truth or Consequences.
If you look carefully, you can see part of our car parked behind the trees at the bottom of the hill. We climbed Red Hill to get a geocache.
We found all the caches and enjoyed touring Chloride. The town has a few inhabitants who own/take care of the historical buildings. The Edmund family purchase the buildings in the 1970s. The general store was boarded and abandoned with all its merchandise in the 1920s. Bats and rats took their toll, but after much cleaning, the store is a step back in time! All the items in the store are the originals from the old mining town.
I never knew strawberry jam came in cans!
Bob wouldn't like to use this lawnmower on our yard! It is the implement hanging in the middle of this picture.
Here is the original 'ditto' maker for teachers. It contains stamps for sight words with a few picture stamps. 
Bobby and Cathy were bringing the kids to spend a week with us and riverside had a great playground. Bobby and Cathy went to Santa Fe for a weekend retreat. Our first order of business with the kids was to hike the campground.
Then it was time to geocache. We went to the lakeside are at Caballo Lake to find our first cache.
We had a full day which we completed on the playground near our camp site.
Bobby and Cathy stopped by on Sunday on the return trip. We planned to meet them the following weekend at Carlsbad Caverns. Christopher and DeAnna stayed with us for the week.
We left Caballo Lake State Park in New Mexico and headed for Bottomless Lakes State Park where Bob and I camped last year.
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