Done Traveling – for Awhile

So, here we are in sunny Arizona.  We woke up Thursday morning in Show Low, with an overnight low temperature of 19 degrees.  As it turns out, the day really was sunny, see:

Does this look like the image of Arizona that comes to mind most often?  Only a few minutes later, Highway 260 brought us off the Mogollon Rim and down into the valley of the metro Phoenix area.  Does this look more like what was expected?

It was a full morning of driving, but we pulled into Paula and Tom’s place about 12:30 and unloaded our toys.  The map on this blog can be expanded to show all of our travels in 2011, which is somewhere around 17,000 miles on the motorhome alone (plus some more on the car and motorcycle).  We don’t expect to move the motorhome until we move to our next NOMADS project in early January, so the map won’t be changing for awhile.  I plan to start a new map in 2012.

The big news of the day is that our nephew, Ty, and his wife, Jen, are now parents.  Congratulations to them on the birth of little Leah!