El Paso - Yayy

On the road again. 22 hours and 1200 miles from St. Louis to El Paso. My country tis of the is all you can say about the breathless terrain. Judy drove the first 600 miles during the day and I drove the next 600 all night. I have to wonder why judy has straight easy going driving and I get the maze of Jersey barriers and orange barrels, squeezing through tight spaces. lol. Oh and make sure if you drive I10 you have a full tank of gas and an empty bladder! you will not see a rest stop for 100 miles. We arrived in El paso at 6:30 in the morning with absolutley no sleep and raring to go. We are staying with our friend Jim Rickel from grammar school. Judy has not seen him since grammar school. I saw him at the last class reunion. Jim is retired from a life career in the Navy. Salute. He has a beautiful home and works 3 jobs from home. We phoned our grammar school friends Tom Dowin (my first bf) and Kevin Lyons who are still very close to Jim. Then we went to dinner and had some big ass margaritas that Jim insisted we have. Never had anything that size in my life. But lo and behold I was able to finish it. Oh and Jim planted one big smooch on Judy (said he wanted to do that since 8th grade lol). Jims daughter Christine joined us for dinner. What a cutie. Then back at Jim's and a little 2-step dance lesson from Judy. You never know when it will come in handy in this neck of the woods. Thanks Jim (travel dad) you are the BEST!! off to the caves today.