Back to Nebraska!

Well, it looks like I'm going back to Nebraska much sooner than I thought. I'm needed there more than I'm needed here....

Not sure when I'm leaving, but it will be this week. I'm getting the van serviced right now so it will be ready to go. I'm also deciding what to take back with me. I'll take some of the antique stuff to put up on eBay and leave a bunch of the books here (I brought 5 or 6 boxes of books with me in December.) but will probably take a few books from here to Nebraska to sell, too.

I haven't even been to the beach this trip! I'll have to go in the morning I think. I promised some friends that I'd bring back some sand dollars. I better pick some lemons to take, too!

Staying in Phoenix

I am staying in Chandler, AZ (Phoenix area) for a few days—staying with daughter #1 (Christine) and her husband Paul. We will go thrift store shopping after she gets off work (Walmart) this afternoon. I'm really looking forward to that!

I had planned on driving across the north part of AZ but the weather reports were not good, so I turned south at Albuquerque. It was a good choice. I'm watching the morning news here and it's showing lots of snow & ice in that area. This cold snap is all over the central part of the country: Christine even had to scrape ice on her car window this morning at 6am. And, of course the Nebraska weather is snowy...

California Roadtrip: in Albuquerque tonight

I have "landed" in Albuquerque this evening. I drove through 4 different states today: KS, OK, TX, and now NM. Coming across th Oklahoma and Texas panhandles was uneventful. Both states had lots of flatlands with ranches and farms.

Many ranches had decorations and Christmas greetings by the mailbox near the highway. Some used decorated hay rolls--one place had a giant turkey made from one hay roll. There seems to be a huge prop ane tankerwreck west of here on the Continental Divide that backed up traffic for 10 miles. That's the direction I planned on traveling in the morning. And, they are predicting snow...I"ll see what the morning brings...

Ever wonder where dead cement trucks go? No? Well, I hadn't either; but I drove past a huge field full of cement mixer trucks in various states if disrepair. It was an interesting sight.Other interesting things today: a coyote was dragging a dead deer off the edge of the highway, a farm dog was running along the highway with a pheasant in his mouth, and the clouds this afternoon made a partial rainbow around the sun.

The local news has not said when I-40 will be open, so for now I'll sit tight here....