How Did We Ever Find New Mexico?

So, we got Arizona and then did a small side trip to San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico.  Yeah, we had to visit the boat (Faith) to see what will be required for NEXT season.  We took pictures and had fun with friends.  Seeing JJ and going out to dinner while living in motel rooms with really, really bad beds!

Other than that there was the long drive down with lots of construction and turning in our FM-3 (resident alien) cards at the border.  So many issues with that but the process was fairly simple. (Stamp, stamp, stamp... su firma aqui... adios!)

We stayed in our favorite place in Amado and shopped a bit in Tubac then stayed in Tucson for a few days (some extra because it rained) then, finally, we were off to the east.  The Tucson stay allowed some visiting time and the bikes caught up to us there.  More on that probably later.

Turning east from Tucson our first day on a new road was pretty good.  There was a bit of construction with a narrow one lane section at 55 mph but that was nothing compared to Mexico and the jarring roads there!!

One stop had me walking Abby and we had a pet section:

Then it had a warning:

Fortunately it is cold right now so there wasn't much chance of a surprise from the reptile clan!