Yesterday everyone was doing pretty well considering the night before...except for Pete that is, who was looking a little rough. Then Tina, her friend Josh, his two kids, and his girlfriend, and I all go to White Sands National Park to slide down some dunes of sand, bike around and have an evening picnic...when the storm rolls in. Let me tell you, wind and fine white sand and rain do not mix well. At first it was quite fun: Tina and I were riding our bikes ...

The next day we drove onwards to High Rolls, to Tina's parents' house. Like people often say when they meet my mother (who has her eccentricities and craziness) I can see where Tina comes from when I see her parents, Wiggy and Pete. These two are awesomely hilarious, funny, and yes, they have their eccentricities and crazy ideas (just ask them about the how their dog Lucy died and the suspicious events surrounding her death/burial). They live in a beautiful ho...

Our arrival into New Mexico was definitely memorable. First of all, the landscape was so foreign to everything we had seen on the road trip thus far: rolling hills and mountains of desert, sage bush in every direction you looked(Tina and I argued about this....Tina was convinced it wasn't sage...but as we discovered later...it was) and no sign of people or wildlife anywhere. It was all very impressive. That night we take a road off the highway in the middle of...