After a restful night in our roadside stop we made our way south to I40 and followed it for a while to the town of Grants where Nina took the opportunity to take a walk around the little town and captured some photos of the town's decorative water feature. From Grants we turned south along NM53 looking for a place to spend the night. As we traveled 53 we started seeing signs for The Ice Caves and since there was no way there could be ice in this hot climate started discussing what they could really be. Thus intrigued, when we finally got to the gates of Ice Caves (a privately owned and run tourist attraction) we went in to investigate and discovered that there really was ice, but more of that in tomorrows entry as for now we needed to find a camping spot for the night.

A bit south of the Ice Caves we found El Morro National Monument and its free overnighting area where there were 9 primitive and not very flat camping spots really designed for tents but this night occupied by motorhomes. After some effort driving various combination of wheels up onto rocks we got flat enough for a comfortable night.