We Found a Great Cafe!

When Don flew out to Arizona to find our house, his cousin-in-law (is that a word?) took him out to breakfast at a place called Coyote Pause Cafe (Get it? "Paws"). The Coyote Pause Cafe is in a cute group of shops called Cat Mountain Station. Since he liked it so much, we went there this morning to celebrate my first day off (AND to prepare for a full day of unpacking). The drive there was gorgeous. It would have been worth the trip even if we hadn't had such a great breakfast.

Note the Street Sign!!!

(The following photos were taken from the Coyote Pause Cafe web site.)









Coyote Pause Cafe Menu 2012.05

The Furniture Arrived! .....Heaven Help Us!

The movers delivered our furniture today. Now, the processing begins. My back and arms are exhausted from cleaning the outsides of everything that had been in storage or in the allergen-ridden house we left behind on Cape Cod. Don reassembled and made the bed--bless his heart!--the most important item of all!! I can't wait to get into it.

New Mexico and.......HOME!!!

Well, we DID arrive safely at our new home in Arizona on Wednesday morning, October 24, but it has been a whirlwind since then, so I have had no chance to catch you up on the rest of the trip and the first few days.

Much of our trip through New Mexico occurred in the dark of early morning, but it did start to get light as we approached the border with Arizona.

Don, in the shadow of early morning

It was pretty exciting to see the signs saying "Welcome to Arizona," even though, as luck would have it, the first camera shot almost missed the first sign and the motor home made a big bounce as I was taking the picture of the second one, so it was totally blurry. Oh well.......

Once we got into Arizona, the mountains got larger and larger in the early morning light.

Finally, almost to Tucson!

Ginny is happy with her new house.

This is one tired puppy!!!!

More Texas - Since Bigger is Better

Since Texas is big enough to be two states, it somehow seems appropriate to have enough pictures to make two posts. The most memorable parts of western Texas are fields and fields of cotton, wind farms with gigantic turbines, and flat, open range as far as the eye can see. It is so flat that a long section of I-20 has a speed limit of 80 mph!

Huge field of cotton

More cotton

It's hard to see, but in the distance, the horizon is filled with
hundreds of giant wind turbines

A lot of Texas is flat, as far as the eye can see.

Look carefully (I almost missed it!)- This is the Colorado River in an early stage,
a long way from where it flows past Austin on its way to the Gulf of Mexico.

Open Range

Oil pump-one of many

Oil refinery

Everything is Bigger in Texas.

....bigger, longer, wider, taller: mega-churches, wide expanses, big steakhouses, and powerful headwinds that threatened to push the RV off the road. 

Barely sunrise, near Ft. Worth, TX

Check out the sign....... Only in Texas!

Site of previous brush fire