Before we get to describing adventures in Mexico - a rundown of the rest of the US road trip.

Southbury to Mystic CT and Newport RI for the “sailors pilgrimage” Both really nice places but the weather sucked. That’s a technical term for rainy and windy.

Back up to Southbury for a bit more work stuff.

Then we tripped up through Massachusetts to Vermont then New Hampshire for a bit of “leaf-peeping”. Wow. We were very pleasantly surprised at just how beautiful it was. Coming from the Pacific Northwest, we have had a bit of experience in natural beauty, a little jaded even. It exceeded my expectations. We drove through a place in the White Mountains called Crawford Notch and as we passed through the little gap in the ridgeline the valley opened up with a vista of spilled paint! We hit the area at “peak color” and it really did take our breath away.

Camped at a little campground on Conway Lake in New Hampshire. Great folks and would return.

On to Maine for the “third corner” state. Kennebunkport for the tourist groove and back to Southbury for the last week there.

We dodged out of the NE and headed down towards Annapolis for the next stop. Then on to Greensboro NC for a customer visit. We had decided that we needed to cross the border into Florida to complete the four corner state tour- I mean, just how often would we ever get that chance again?
So Florida, Alabama, Mississippi- stopped for lunch at The Shed- and into Louisiana. The next day we drove to Rockwall TX for a visit with Kelly’s family.

The last leg found us doing a little different route to San Diego- Up to I-40 for a Route 66 run to Flagstaff, down to Phoenix, and a run over to Palm Desert. We then hopped off of the freeway and did the Palms-to-Pines drive. Quite a little challenge for the “Little Bad Ass”.

OK Back to San Diego- 15,000 miles later and a lot of the country seen.
Would we do it again? Nope, no desire at all- It isn’t an idle decision, we are road warriors of the ultimate sort-but why would we want to? It was just too long of a trip and we found that we rarely got the opportunity to really enjoy any area in depth.

Next entry- On to Mexico!