San Antonio

When we finished up at the Alamo we decided to check out a bit of the city. We took a walk on the Riverwalk, a quaint little walkway lined with restaurants, hotels, and businesses. We took a trolley ride to Market Square, a Mexican market area, and had lunch in a very festive Mexican restaurant.

Brayden meets Santa

We are on the move, covering the southwest from Arizona, across New Mexico, and into Texas -- in the rain. That's why I don't have any new pictures. It has been cold and bleak and rainy, but it wasn't bad for driving. Hopefully the sun will peek out tomorrow.

In the meantime, here's a cute Christmas picture of Brayden.

A couple more Addy pictures

Addy, Mattie, Kaiser, and Daddy just playing.

Addy likes the Christmas tree.

New Picture of Addy

Addy has learned to sit up all by herself and she is proud of it.

I-8 Southwestern Arizona

The Lord has definitely created some interesting land. You don't find this in Minnesota!

Besides a lot more sand and sagebrush, there were a lot of dry riverbeds. I imagine the land will look different in few months.

There were also a lot of cattle feed lots. What a good place to pack thousands of cows into a little space and not worry about the smell. We were surprised that many of the lots also were growing there own hay fields.

More of the highway

Then there was a section of land covered with all these black rocks spread out all over and in patches. Where did they come from?

Another part of the landscape was covered with saguaro and cholla cacti--and always mountains in the background. Absolutely amazing.

Considering there is hardly a curve in the highway, there was always plenty to see.

On the move

It's December 2 and time to get on the move. We left Thousand Trails Pio Pico and traveled about 40 miles through once scenic mountainous land. Only now it was all black. The California fires were truly devastating.

Then we traveled another maybe 60 miles of scenic Interstate 8. The above pictures show the rocky mountains. Very unique. When this stretch of highway was completed, the landscape became sand and sagebrush. We were amazed at the number of RVs just camped anyplace to be able to play on the sand dunes.