Long day...
Galina and I got up at 2:30 am and left Houston an hour later, headed for Pagosa. I slept for most of the way up I-45 and dozed here and there along highway 287 between Ft. Worth and Childress. Galina well and truly didn't want to cede the wheel, and when she did - for a brief span between Childress and Amarillo and again from north of España, New Mexico to Pagosa, her back seat driving rivaled anything I had ever experienced from my mom back when I was first behind the wheel, and that is saying a lot.
My Pagosa ETA of 8:30 local time was shifted by almost exactly the hour we were delayed on I-40, a mere 2-1/4 miles east of the turnoff for Clines Corners and highway 285. We came home to a mewing cat (I had forgotten how incessantly the animal makes noise), my missing U3 USB drive (still connected to my computer), and a son who threw his knee out snowboarding (again).
Life goes on.
Cheers...
P.S. And not really an afterthought... Happy Birthday, Natalie! (It's already the 23rd in London.)
My Pagosa ETA of 8:30 local time was shifted by almost exactly the hour we were delayed on I-40, a mere 2-1/4 miles east of the turnoff for Clines Corners and highway 285. We came home to a mewing cat (I had forgotten how incessantly the animal makes noise), my missing U3 USB drive (still connected to my computer), and a son who threw his knee out snowboarding (again).
Life goes on.
Cheers...
P.S. And not really an afterthought... Happy Birthday, Natalie! (It's already the 23rd in London.)