It was an early morning - especially when you consider we were right at the far edge of Central Time Zone, and would gain an hour within a couple miles of where we stayed last night.
It was chilly when I went out to unhook electric and cable - as in: 62ยบ. Felt kinda good. We picked up a breakfast sandwich (well Joan picked it up, I found a place to park the motorhome) and rolled west. West of Van Horn, the terrain is a bit less nondescript for a while...
Calm wind - a first on this trip. The next traffic to deal with: El Paso. El Paso is a city of just under one million population, with 2 1/2 million people within a 50 mile radius (taking in Cuidad Juarez on the Mexico side of the border). The city is mostly between a mountain and the river, making it a long narrow stretch of population... I figure about 30 miles of concentrated traffic.
As we rolled into town, the traffic looked like this...
It usually gets thicker as you get deeper into town. Today...
I was going to wait until we were all the way through town before declaring it a successful El Paso passage, when Joan said, "That was about as easy as it has ever been going through El Paso."
Yep. A stop for fuel at the border, and into New Mexico. It looks a lot like west Texas. Into Arizona...
We stopped for the night about 175 miles from Steph and Dan's. The second time zone change going into Arizona made it still reasonably early... our tired butts told us different.
Little Izzy upon arrival at the RV park...
Not a lot of RVs on the road this holiday weekend. Probably heading somewhere cooler, huh? ;-)
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On edit:
Got the guitar out for a bit this evening. Nice way to relax after a long driving day. The humidity right now is... 7%. 7%?!? I am already feeling like I have "Vegas throat"... without the entertainment factor of being in Vegas. The new guitar (carbon fiber) sounds good and doesn't care one bit about the humidity... or lack thereof.
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