Monday November 18, Rockhound State Park, Deming, NM

Sandy and Winston with Ian

Today has been one of mixed emotions, happy that we have met with the new owners of Ruakiwi, but sad to think after 50,000 miles and 17 months of travel since 2008 we will be saying farewell to her in a few weeks.

We had seen the town of Lordsburg on the map and felt that it would be a good location for us both to travel to as it was just off the I 10, which worked out really fine, but the town was certainly one that had really seen far better days, and certainly not a place to spend time in unless you needed to refuel!

Enjoyed the drive into Lordsburg this morning,

Lordsburg, a town that seem to have been forgotten.

Sandy and Winston have had several RV’s over the years, even spent some time as full time RV’ers, and were now looking for a smaller unit that they could head off for several months exploring, just as we have. They had been looking for a Born Free and were very happy with the condition Ruakiwi was in, so the deal was done. We will deliver her to them in Tucson, Arizona when we fly out on December 5.

It has worked out well as now we can relax for the last few weeks knowing everything is organised, although it will be a bit nerve wracking…..in all our travels we have never put a mark or dent in Ruakiwi…lets hope we can finish off unmarked!

We drove East to a state park just out of Deming, a great spot and even lit a campfire and sat outside for several hours enjoying the view and the sunset. Today the temperatures have been in the low 20’s, the warmest day we have had for several weeks.

We sat and watched the sunset from our camp tonight.