I ended up making it as far as Lordsburg, New Mexico last night. There was a KOA campground there so I decided to hit that up. I did and I was the only person in a tent which was nice since I got to use the group tent spots which had a huge fire pit with a bunch of wood already in it.
I spent all yesterday driving through the desert. My car was telling me it was 100F outside at many points and always in the upper 90’s. I made good time and besides some roadwork there wasn’t much traffic. There’s a bunch of mountains and interesting rock formations out here. But no grass really just lots of small bushes. Ants appear to be the predominant form of life out here. When I got to my campsite it was after 7:30PM local time and the sun was getting low on the horizon. I had plenty of time to get my campsite setup but at least the temperature had fallen into the low 90’s by then. In the last hour before the sun was completely set it got really windy. Once the sun set, the wind died down and the temperature started dropping dramatically. It was still warm when I went to bed, upper 70’s at least. But by 1am I was cold and had to close my sleeping bag. I’m not sure how cold it got. Probably around mid-50’s. It’s already almost 80 and going to 103 here today.
Anyway I’m going to continue the trek east now. Going to try to put away 500 more miles today.