As a wise man once said, all good things have to come to an end - I guess he was right. With more then a touch of melancholy, we packed up, had a light breakfast at the Trinity and headed back West for our trip home.
We decided to take the short route going South through Texas. It may be shorter but it was long on boring, unless you are the kind to swoon over oil derricks, sage brush and 18 shades of tan. El Paso looked just like W. 11th in Eugene only longer and bit more tacky and a lot less green. We headed NW back into New Mexico, switching off driving duties often so at least one of us could nap through the mundane.
We stopped in Deming for lunch at McDonalds. Little did we know that the Mickey D's in Deming was having a convention for every loud, rude obnoxious person in a 50 square mile area. The man sitting behind Kat was proclaiming how no #*%@ &>^ hole is ever going to take his license away and he would keep driving except he had bent the side of his car so bad that he couldn't put gas in his tank and he was running on less then fumes. The one armed, toothless lady behind me was yelling in Spanish, the gist as I understood it was that her husband saw her Cricket bill and realized that she was cheating on him with his brother and she had been locked out of her trailer. Oh, the pain, the indigestion, the pact with Kat never to stop in Deming N.M.
423 miles and we were pulling into the Hampton in Tucson to rest our weary, frayed souls. We did have a nice dinner where we sat and watched Michigan beat Tennessee to advance to the Elite 8. Right now, we are rooting for MSU.
Final thoughts...just that we are very lucky, blessed people to have so much joy in our lives.
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| My new shirt, thanks Den & Laurie |
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| A plaque commemorating a stage coach line--it was blowing a gale and freezing cold |
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| The only scenic view we saw all day--Guadalupe mt. range |
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| Home for the night |
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| Interesting Cactus |
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| Our last sunset in Arizona for awhile |
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