On the Road Again...Dia de Uno y Dos

Saturday morning we were all up by 6:30 am (Krisanne was also wide awake...new experience for her). We had a nice breakfast at Mike’s house before we packed up the van to head on the road. We couldn’t leave before taking a couple silly pictures, one of which included Mike doing the Jenny pose.

The van was packed and ready to go, and we left Mike’s house about 10:30 am. Before leaving the Phoenix area, I took mom and dad by my work place, then drove up South Mountain to get one last look of Phoenix before we headed East.

Stop #1 consisted of stopping and visiting some long time friends of mom and dad in Tucson. We stopped to visit with Tom and Linda Finnegan for a couple hours before driving back West to visit Saguaro National Park.


Stop #2...cactus country The Saguaros are beautiful, and thought we would have a little fun with them.


Finally leaving Tucson at 7:30pm I know...9 hours after we left Mike’s house, we were only 2 ½ hours on the road We made it as far as Deming, New Mexico on day 1.

Day 2...
After a short night of not much sleep we packed up the van, attached the bikes and were on the road by 9am. It took less than an hour before we got into the wonderful state of Texas, which is where we will spend the next day and a half. Have you ever driven across the widest part of Texas? The scenery is desert with a few mountains south in the distance. The weather was about 65 degrees and raining the entire day...sounds like it was nicer back home! Very few rest areas along the way, which didn’t matter since we drove 9.5 hours and only stopped once!!! Yeah, that’s right...once...to grab something for lunch in Fort Stockton, TX and use the bathroom, then the next stop was the stop for the night in Kerrville, TX. The drive across Texas on I-10 is about 880 miles long...at least we made it past the half way point today!!