January 4, 2011

We arrived in Casa Grande, AZ. We are staying in a very nice campground resort. We only had a 120 mile drive from our previous campground. We are here for two weeks. When we got here it was 61 degrees and sunny. Our patio is in the sun all day, nice setting.

We drove 1898 miles since leaving home. Of course that includes not only the drive here, but the driving from the campgrounds to sighseeing, to get fuel after parking, and to eat out. Normally by the time you make the drive each day, you just want to eat and relax for the night.

It was nice on our way today to receive a phone call from Jr & Luanne. The girls and grandchildren have called and texted. We remember when Mom & Dad Winkle was in Florida for three months and between Jr's and us we got a phone call once a week. Thank goodness for cell phones and computers.

This and the next pictures were taken in New Mexico. Temperature there were around 45 degrees about noon. We were surprised to see snow on the ground, not unusual to see it on the mountains.

We don't like to see snow, but the snow on the mountain is very pretty.

We are in ARIZONA. We move tomorrow morning to the resort in Casa Grande and we are there for two weeks. We are ready to stay put.

We arrived at Benson, AZ around 2:00 and it was 61 degrees and sunny.

We have arrived in Van Horn, Tx, which is in the western part of Texas. We are 140 miles from El Paso (border of Texas/New Mexico). We stayed in this same campground last year coming and going. We are only here for one night and then move on to Arizona.

We left Abilene, TX this morning. When we left we were seeing cotton fields, then to oil fields, then refineries, then mountains. (mountains aren't as big as Arizonas.

The two pictures are from route #20 at the overpast at Pecos, TX. Very nicely done.

Because we are mostly in areas we were last year, there isn't many pictures taken. Starting Tuesday we will be in different areas.