Home Stretch!

We are so close to our new abode! We finished Texas and New Mexico today. We are staying the night in Flagstaff, and it is actually really cold. I always kind of associated Arizona with being warm, but there is ice and even some snow on the ground. We are actually about 45 miles away from the Grand Canyon and we are thinking it might be worth the quick detour.
The scenery changed today. New Mexico was quite flat at first, we even saw our first tumbleweeds. There is something beautiful about the simplicity of the landscape. You could look out over the land and even the canyons and find peace with the lack of strip malls and chain restaurants. The end of daylight brought lots of beautiful canyons with sunlight pouring into all of the spaces between the rocks. It was a truly amazing sight.

The exits have become a little more spaced out and at night it is almost completely black. The stars are so much easier to see and you can see so many of them.

Fatigue has set in. We are tired more often and the aches in our backs have become greater. It will be worth it when we arrive in La Habra. I don't really enjoy driving but man will I be stoked to drive my car again.