I need a break!!

Due to stressing out badly over relatively minor things. I decided to take a break and get an RV spot for a month in Benson, AZ. I was already planning to visit Tombstone, AZ which is only 25 miles from this RV park, so I can visit it several times during my stay. Part of my stress was due to being sick for the past 7-10 days but also having to keep on the move and staying so busy. I'm just not used to it. I need a chance to relax and do nothing for a while, as I so desire. I drove straight through to Benson from Las Cruces, save for a couple quick stops along the way.

One of which is a big waste of tax payer money. A border patrol checkpoint along I-10 west bound, in the middle of New Mexico a short ways outside of Las Cruces, not really close to the Mexican border at all.

I took the photo so it wasn't too obvious to the agents if they happened to be looking my way that I was doing so.

Once I got up there, I got asked all of two questions:

"Are you a United States citizen?"
"Is anyone else traveling with you today?"

"Yes", "No", and I was told I could continue on. Is this [i][b]really[/b][/i] the best use of tax dollars for the "security" of the country?

Fast forward a couple hours, I stopped off at the Flying J in Lordsburg, NM for a break.

A short while later, I was in Arizona. I stopped at the first rest area into AZ but it didn't have much. The view was fair at best.

I skipped the next one which I regret, it would have been awesome for photos of the mountains. *sigh* By the time I realized it, I was past the exit. They need to mark it as a scenic overlook as well as a rest area!

I arrived in Benson around 4pm and found the RV park (El Rio) without using GPS... I took the first exit and the road took me right past it. For once I actually spotted something I was looking for on the first try! I'm here for the next 30 days now. I found probably the lowest price RV park around. $220/mo plus metered electric. Being that it's November, I won't need the A/C much or at all so I won't have much of an electric bill to pay next month upon checkout.

The main reason the place is so cheap, I suspect, is the spaces are VERY small. The biggest that would fit is a 30ft travel trailer or 5th wheel. There is NO WAY a 40ft massive Class A motorhome could fit in here. They are all back-in spaces and some of them are VERY tight, such as the spot I got. I fit in fine but anything much larger would be hard to fit in width wise. The WIFI sucks, sadly. But I have my Virgin Mobile Android with unlimited (throttled after 3.5GB) hotspot which is working very well here thankfully, so I won't have to rely on the lousy WIFI. They have a single restroom and shower for both men and women, which they give you a key for. But upon going to for a shower this evening, the door had been left ajar. Perhaps on accident. I made sure to lock it when I left. The place is very well kept for being so low priced. It's filled with old RVs, clearly full time residents.

There is a track track across the road but they don't blow their horns TOO close to the place. Not that it would bother me, having lived in a more expensive, less well kept RV park that had trains blowing their horns about 300ft from my van day and night.

I will be spending a day down in Tombstone next week some time and maybe making more trips down there while I'm here for the next 30 days.

The town of Benson is small enough, I can ride my bike to Safeway for groceries 1.5 mile away and to other stores around town. I will only need to drive to get to Tombstone or to get more propane if the need comes up. All in all, I think I will enjoy my time here.