Saturday, December 31, 2011. Happy New Years Eve. It will be a quiet New Years Eve for us tonight. We ate at the campground restaurant.

We left Abilene, TX today at 8:15 a.m. and arrived at Van Horn, TX at 1:30 p.m. We are about 140 miles from the New Mexico State Line. This was finally a short trip for us, about 330 miles today. We are on schedule to be at Benson, AZ tomorrow afternoon, we will stay there until Wednesday morning. We will view the football games on January 2 & 3.

The following pictures -- It is great; mountains, cactus plants, and 77 degrees temperatures here, couldn't be better.

Hope everyone has a great New years. If your 2011 wasn't what you expected, hopefully your 2012 will improve. If 2011 was fine, hope it continues for you in 2012.

First view of the mountains.

Cactus at the campground at Van Horn, TX. We are almost to New Mexico. Tomorrow morning we will cross into Mountain Time Zone. So we will be two hours different from home.

A road sign in Texas.

Friday, December 30, 2011 -- Another long day of driving. We drove 484 miles today from Miami, OK to Abilene, TX. We only go around 62 to 65 miles an hour. We are on schedule to be sitting at a campground for the January 2 & 3 football games and then reach our first reservation at Yuma, AZ on January 4.

It is funny the last two trips we didn't see any beef cattle in Texas. Today we took a different route (now three different routes) and we seen a lot of beef cattle. So nice to see them in the fields.

Seen a billboard advertising that Garth Brooks, Toby Keith, Will Rodgers, Sam Walton (Walmart's owner), and someone I don't remember were all born in Oklahoma.

Thursday, December 29, 2011 -- Well we left Terra Haute, IN this morning at 8:30, but within 10 miles or so we were in Central Time Zone. So we gained an hour.

We are at Miami, OK. This is about 5 miles or so from the Missouri/Oklahoma State Line. We arrived here at 3:30 p.m. and it was 67 degrees and sunny. We drove 491 miles today, 8 hrs of driving.

We left home this morning at 7:55 a.m. and stopped for Breakfast at Milan. Not far, but left on a full stomach. We are stopped for the night at Terra Haute, IN. We arrived at 2:30 p.m. We wanted to drive further today, but any campground in Illinois on Route 70 was closed this time of the year. So we stopped here at a KOA.

We seen a sign in Terra Haute that "This is the birthplace of the Coca Cola Bottle". The root glass company made the first contour bottle. Ok, enough history.

Well this was suppose to be the first day on the road. Because of the snow arriving we didn't leave. So we will leave tomorrow morning.

Well here we are looking at three weeks and we will leave for Arizona. After seeing the snow and cold this morning it makes you want to go. I will never be anxious to leave the family.