DAY SEVEN

We slept until eight this day and were packed and on the road by 9:30. We first stopped at a gift shop and bought T shirts with T or C on them. Mine has a map of New Mexico on the front with all the places we have visited. I feel like taking a permanent marker and circling all the spots we have hit.

Then we started south. Soon we reached Las Cruces and headed on over to El Paso. Not a whole lot to report except we could look across the river and see Mexico on the other side. The houses looked like little shanties clinging to the side of the hill all crowded together. But they were very colorful, so it wasn't an unattractive sight.

We covered a little less than half of this huge state and stopped in Sweetwater for the night.

Tomorrow we will head over to Tyler to spend the night with my nephew and his wife, Steve and Margie. We are really looking forward to seeing them and their two beautiful daughters.