We are off to Florida

We are off to Florida for Christmas with Mom. This year we decided to drive. In preparation, I downloaded 40 + hours of audio books from Audible. In addition to seeing some of the country we will catch up on our reading … well listening. We started late this morning 11:00 AM to our first planned stop in Las Cruces, NM. It took almost 6 hours to get here; a Holiday Inn Express. Wonder what the Express stands for? We have a very comfortable room. Only issue is that we are on the first floor and can hear the people above as they walk about. Sounds like a herd of elephants. They did have fresh warm cookies and coffee ready when we arrived. From Phoenix, we started listening to Alan Aldas new book, Never Stuff Your Dog. It’s the story of his life. So far it’s very good. His life as a young boy was wild as his parents were in show business. Sandy kept busy knitting a baby blanket for her sister’s new, very cute grandson. Her goal is to have it complete by the time we get to Mom’s. From there she will mail it off …

Today we ran into more traffic then I expected. The trip from Phoenix to Tucson was really slow. So much traffic and too many trucks. At one point we came to a complete stop in the middle of nowhere. As we screech to a stop the fourth car behind us rear ended the vehicle ahead of it. Because of the high speed it was bad. We could not see if anyone was hurt but the front end the car was badly smashed. For the next 40 miles we moved at no more then 20-30 miles an hour. South of Tucson things opened up and we were off. Set the cruise control to 80 mph and down to road we went. We only had to slow when encountering truckers pass other trucks. We did see a few that rode the left lane, making traffic pass on their right. These folks need to find another line of work …

Our next scheduled stop is Columbus, TX … some 750 miles away. It’s going to be a long day on the road with plenty of book listening time.