Road Trip!!

We are on the 3rd day of our Southwest adventure, in Cloudcroft New Mexico with my Uncle Jim and Aunt Bev.

We started the trip in San Antonio by watching the Spurs beat the Nuggets in the NBA playoffs. The next day, Peep got to meet my 90 year old grandfather Carl and after lots of dessert and pictures and history, we drove to San Angelo where we could go no further and stayed in a Motel 6! It's not a road trip until you spend the night in a Motel 6. The next day (yesterday) we drove 8 hours to Cloudcroft, stopping to greet the Aliens in Roswell.

Now we are surrounded by mountains and pine forest. This morning we saw 4 wild elk in the yard.

We don't have a schedule or any definite plan. Major things we want to see are: an Apache reservation, Los Angeles, HWY 1, San Fransisco, Yosemite, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Zion National Park. Other than that, we will stop when we see cool stuff, spend lots of time hiking and camping and getting in touch with people around the country.

We have no schedule, but we do have goals and guiding principals.

These are the goals:

• Have fun


• Learn about each other/ develop our relationship


• See beautiful, inspiring things


• Develop relationships with people we meet/ stay with

These are the principles:

• Whatever happens is the best thing that could have happened (No "we should have," "if only," etc.)


• If there is an issue, we talk about it


• We choose delight (we do not pass up fields of wildflowers where we long to frolic in order to get there faster)


• Carpe Diem (when something cool and unexpected invites us, we do it)

With these, we will track our progess.