Travel post – Day 1

We are on the road again!!

Don was happy that we pulled out of Sunscape RV Resort on schedule… 8:30 AM.  Well, we were in the truck by 8:30 and after praying for our trip and Sunscape folks again, we pulled out.

Please say a prayer for Sunscape and for them to follow the Lord’s directing.  Pray for the chaplain and  pastor of God’s choosing to be at Sunscape and God’s blessing on him and his wife.  We sure love these sweet people of Sunscape and pray God’s very best for them.  It’s bittersweet to leave… so hard to leave people we love and who love us, yet so excited to see what God has in store for us and looking forward to meeting and serving more wonderful people.

Don is finally getting to scratch his hitch itch!

Our last view of Picacho Peak.

And the big U.S. flag over the Picacho Peak travel center. 

Don’t you just love road construction?  No shoulder; reduced speed; trucks that think 55 mph is just a suggestion.

9:32 AM – entering Tucson.

The Palo Verde, Ocotillo and Bird of Paradise along the highway are all in full, vibrant bloom.

The University of Arizona is in Tucson.  To give you an idea of how big the “A” is, see the white car beneath it?

Thank you, Tucson VA Medical Center, for Don’s new pacemaker.

9:50 AM – leaving Tucson.

Some going down the road pictures:

11:20 AM – time for fuel.  Wilcox, AZ.

Leaving Wilcox.

For awhile, the ground was covered with yellow flowers.

Yellow flowers.

12:14 PM – New Mexico!!  (correction:  1:14 PM)  Time change!

That’s not water.

This is water.

2:15 PM – back on the road after lunch at Kranberry’s at Lordsburg, NM.

New Mexico.  This is just about it for today.

3:16 PM – time for fuel at Deming, NM - $2.88/gallon.  Washed the windshield for better pictures, I hope.  Not a lot to photograph at 65 mph.  I’m already about ready to stop for the night.

Yucca's blooming, miles of them.

More yellow flowers and an old tire and wheel.

5:00 PM – we are parked in Las Cruces, all set up for the night and resting.  Don is searching for local TV channels.  No success, so we watched three movies:  Black Stallion, The Fly Wheel, and Griffin and Phoenix.

On the park site map was a “pond” situated across the street from where we are parked, so I walked over to check out the pond.  Hmmmm.  Somebody forgot to turn on the water.  It has potential though.

Read friend Peggy Bullock’s blog tonight and I’m so thankful that she and Bill are okay.  Read about their guardian angel at work today by clicking on the live link.

Thank you to everyone for your prayers for the safety of all of us travelers.

Our lives are never more secure than when they are abandoned to God.