The longest day of driving. 8 1/2 hours of it. It started early with breakfast being provided and we headed south out of El Paso, following the river and the border with Mexico. We were again amazed with the number of trucks on the road, and I have no idea how many we have passed. The scenery started off bare enough; scrub on both sides, with a small patch of greenery attached to the river. However, once we turned east we started more into hills and then started ...

Today was a rest day, with the intention of going up the Tramway to get a view into Mexico, but apparently this has been shut down recently for safety reasons. Oops. As such, Matt and Katie wanted to get some shopping done and we went to a factory outlet as it was after Black Friday. Sue and I walked around the shops, looking, without finding anything in particular. We had given the twins 1 1/2 hours to look and when they returned they were both carrying multiple...

This morning we grabbed a quick coffee and headed off south towards Texas. We followed the range of hills which were attached to Sandia Peak on our left, and had what should really be described as ‘cowboy country’ for the rest of the view. We did pass several signs offering 20-50 acres for $18000. Not a bad deal but there is nothing out here. We made it to the town of Truth Or Consequence. Yup. It did have a Denny’s, and as the twins had not tried one befo...