On January 10 we picked up our Arctic Fox. 😀

Our dream home on wheels!!!

We stayed at Wild West RV in Maricopa for five weeks after picking up the trailer.  We spent a lot of time customizing the trailer to our needs with more work to do when we got back to Deming.  We did manage to go to do some sightseeing.

The Wertz Gourd Farm Festival was at the county fairgrounds in Casa Grande.   The American Indian Performance was excellent and the Gourd Art Competition was gorgeous.

We drove around the county, went to the New Mexico University Farm Tour, visited the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument and the Painted Rock Petroglyph Site and BLM Campground. 

Even spotted some wildlife.

January 19 we headed back to the Temperate Zone in Deming.  The day started out gloomy and then the beautiful sun came back

Most of December was spent at removing the solar system from the Aliner and putting the equipment into a storage unit in Deming.  Then detailing the Aliner in preparation for the trade-in on a new travel trailer.  We would buy the new trailer in Arizona and bring it back to the TZ in Deming to install the solar when the weather warmed.

The first half of December we were at the Temperate Zone RV Park, 15 miles north of Deming.  We had full hook-ups so we didn't need the solar.

The night temperatures in Deming were getting down into the 20's , so on December 19 we moved to Wild West RV Park in Maricopa, Arizona, ten degrees warmer day and night. Also, Mesa, AZ was close by and had dozens of RV Sales for us to find our new travel trailer.

One day trip that was especially memorable was the drive to Superstition Mountains and Roosevelt Lake, north east of Phoenix.  Here are several pictures from that day.

One of the winter campers at Wild West had a powered parasail. The weather was nice enough that he could ride most days.

At the end of December we located the trailer of our dreams and put down the deposit.  An Arctic Fox 25Y by Northwood.

​To close, here are some Christmas pictures and a very beautiful sunset near our campground.

Our winter camps were divided into two locations:  Deming, NM at the Temperate Zone (TZ) owned by Vickie and James  and  Maricopa, AZ at the Wild West RV Park.

Leib joined us at the TZ for a week at Thanksgiving on his way from San Francisco to Michigan.

One of the places we visited with Leib was City of Rocks State Park.  The bottom picture is one of the camp sites.

Our new truck, we picked up the day before Thanksgiving.

We hiked to the summit of Spring Canyon.  The little white specks in the first picture are the campgrounds at
​Rockhound State Park.

We had a great time with Leib having lunch in Palomas, Mexico.

The view of Cook's Peak at our camp site at the TZ.
​Night All,  B&D