Tax season is over!!!  The only sad part was leaving our friends at Northwest Community Friends Church.  I don’t think we actually got out of Tucson until sometime around noon, but we anticipated that and only planned a four-hour day on the road.

Goodbye, Tucson!

Shadow play on the mountain

Boulder mountain

Open desert

Coming into Las Cruces, NM

Early moon

As soon as we crossed the border between Arizona and New Mexico, we re-entered Mountain time.  We only drove four hours, but we got to Las Cruces five hours after we left Tucson.  Time-wise, we are now half way between our friends and family in  Washington, Oregon and Arizona, and our friends in Door County, Wisconsin.

I spent most of the trip looking at magazines that are giving me ideas for remodeling our house.  I saved a chunk of my inheritance from Sherill to do some much needed work on our house, starting with upgrading our electrical wiring and putting in a new furnace.  Mark and I have been discussing all sorts of ideas for the rest of the house.  It’s going to be interesting to see how much we can accomplish.