Day 1 Highland, CA to Albuquerque, NM

Finally, finally, finally!

We’re on our way.

There were even more problems with our car rental this morning that delayed us by about an hour but it all worked out eventually. I can’t tell you how good it felt to pull out of that driveway and head unabashedly East!

Our rental ended up being a Kia Sorrento. We are very pleased with it so far. Driving it alone, compared to our 2000 Ford Focus, is a vacation all in itself.

A Kia Sorrento might just be our next car

 The Kia was just the right size to get all the gear I needed packed in.

And cruise control! Yeah!

We were having a good ole time, talking, looking at everything, feeling the freedom of the road, listening to music and even stopping at a truck graveyard to take some pictures.

Around Flagstaff we had quite a scare. My credit card stopped working. After some intense phone calls to Bangalore we finally got things straightened out and were on our way.

Road construction in Flagstaff had us parked and crawling bumper-to-bumper for about 40 minutes. Flagstaff, even just from the freeway is a beautiful peaceful place. Staring at swaying pine trees on the median took some of the sting out of being stuck in traffic.

By the way, if you see Facebook posts I post from the road, don’t worry I’m not texting while driving, I hand over my phone and take dictation.

Now, we are in Albuquerque and ready to get a good nights sleep. Tomorrow is going to be a pretty boring drive with the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma and Arkansas to cross.

Now to slzzzzzz...