Tucson, AZ

I am currently in Tucson, AZ in my motel lobby. Yesterday was an exhausting day of driving. We drove for 10 hours from Fort Davis, TX all the way to Tucson. We arrived at Tucson at 9:30, checked into the hotel, and then visited a casino. I played poker for a couple of hours, won $4, then went to bed.

It has been hard to find a decent Internet connection over the past few days. I spent the first night in Fort Stockton, TX, about 2 hours north of Big Bend. The second night was in Fort Davis, TX. I saw the observatory and attended the star party. The star party was awesome! The guy had this high powered green laser that he would use to point out all the constellations. Being in the middle of nowhere, I could see so many stars.

It is incredibly desolate in West Texas. I would not see any cars or people for tens of miles at the time. There was nothing, but cattle and open country. The scenery in Big Bend is quite spectacular. Mike and I did a 5 mile hike up this mountain that took us to 6,000 feet.

Yesterday, we spent a couple hours in El Paso, looking around the neighborhood where he grew up. It seems the entire town is Mexican and they speak Spanish more than English. I10 goes along the Mexican border and you could see the poverty on the other side of the border.