4:50 am.   Maddi called to FaceTime again.   She must really be missing her Mammie.   Gregory told her to let us sleep and she is going to call back after school.

8 am.  Woke up burning up.   We were trying to just use the fan and not run the truck AC but it’s time to turn on the AC.    Dry heat my butt!    Going to try to get a couple more hours of sleep now that it’s cooling off some.

11:30.  Back on the road.   Should get to Texas tonight.   Shooting for 500 miles.

1 pm.  Lots of desert.  Lots of cacti. A few cows.   That’s it.    I cannot imagine trying to do this on horseback or in a wagon.   God bless those who came before us!

6 pm (8 pm Eastern).   Girls called tonight so I could read them a bedtime story.  Sadie read us one and then I read one.   So sweet!

Tombstone, Arizona.

Signs at the El Paso rest area.

  
We got this message from AT&T.  But we’re not in Mexico!

Pretty close though.

12 am.  Turning in.   Have to go another 500 miles tomorrow.   Goodnight y’all.

Some pictures from today.

DG:  I was just mentioning to Annie, after passing El Paso that there was no border check for Texas on this highway like there is when you leave Laredo. But just a few miles out of town and there they were. This time they didn’t even stop us to ask if we were American citizens, but we did pass through two scanning stations each with a dozen cameras and other scanning devises, Lord only knows what, and when we got to the check point I could see that the border agent was looking at a large screen and when we got up there he just waved us on through.  No papers, no questions about citizenship or weapons or explosives. Good thing too cause if they made this like airport security nobody would ever get anywhere. 

So needless to say, I’m beat and therefore going to bed. 

Goodnight and God bless.