New Mexico Bound!

My visit to Arizona was coming to an end and it was time to continue my journey on to New Mexico on December 30th. So on Friday the I decided to take the Suburban and get it washed. After the car wash it was making a metal on metal sound when I stepped on the brakes, the one thing I had not changed before leaving California. Tom said he would look at them on Sunday. When he looked at them the pads were low and to be on the safe side we changed both the front and back, and when I say we I really mean Tom because I have no idea about anything mechanical!

After removing the rear tires we found out that the rear self stabilizing shocks had blown. So in order to continue my journey they also needed to be replaced. I won't even go into the cost of the parts only and I don't know what I would have done without Tom's generosity in changing all of this for me. I doubt that it was that he wanted me gone!  HAHAHA I can't thank him and Bonnie enough for having me at their home and hopefully some day, wherever I settle down, I can repay them in one form or another. 

I wanted to do the travel from Phoenix to Silver City, New Mexico on Tuesday because it was supposed to be a clear day without too many people on the road. Motel Miguel got hooked up and I said my goodbyes. 

I finally arrived to highway 70 where I was to get off of highway 10 in Lordsburg, New Mexico. Lordsburg was once a booming town but now it's pretty much a ghost town that's falling apart. 

Off of highway 70, a few miles from highway 10 I was to get onto highway 90. 

Highway 90 is a long, tumbleweed filled two lane road that takes about forty miles up the mountains until you finally see Silver City. My friends Hal and Anne moved here a year ago and I wanted to see why they had moved here. That's a story for another day!  

I arrived at their home in the early afternoon and settled Motel Miguel onto the spot it was going to call home for January. 

As I sit here doing this update I can't help but think of how 2014 had some low points for me that made me realize life is too short. I'm extremely fortunate to have so many wonderful people in my life. Each and everyone have given me an opportunity to grow and encouraged me to follow my heart and my dreams. I miss everyone back home in California, my Mothers cooking, my family gatherings, my agility family and specially my best friends Mike and Greg. 

I'm looking forward to 2015 and meeting a lot of new people like I have so far in the last couple of months in Phoenix and Tucson.