Phoenix.

Well, I'm sitting here in a room at the Holiday Inn Express in Goodyear, Arizona just outside Phoenix. We drove about 2,500 miles in 4 days. Driving through DC to Virginia was slowed by hurricane Hannah on Saturday and we briefly thought that we wouldn't make it to AZ on time (we actually made it early). There was a wonderful stop in Staunton, VA to have dinner and spend about an hour with Lindsey (she's my favorite).

Yesterday we drove through Petrified Forest National Park and saw the Painted Desert. On Monday we had our most efficient day, waking up in Little Rock, Arkansas and making our way through Oklahoma (saw Emily King in OK City), the Texas panhandle, and stopping in New Mexico.

Hopefully there will be more on the finer points of it later.