the Youngest Snowbird:

T-Shirts fur Dogs

Here's what this childless (by choice) couple spends our cash on:

Dog clothing. Pathetic, but true. 

Shelbert developed a shampoo rash and she's been scratching her belly lately so we had to get her a snug t-shirt to stop the scratching. The Bert's shirt says Get Your Nose Out of My Butt.  Dog humour.

She loves her new shirt. Unlike most mutts, Shelby really likes wearing clothes. We're not dog psychologists, but we think snug shirts make her feel safe, like a warm security blanket.

While at PetSmart we decided to pick up a shirt for Stormin Norman too.

Probably a total waste of money as Normie is a macho little thing who believes he should be running thru the wilderness, wild and free.  And naked.

He hates all dog clothing, including his new t-shirt. He can't even look at me right now. 

the shirts were $7.49 each, on sale at PetSmart

Pics from Las Cruces to Tucson

JohnnyDisco travelled another 282 miles yesterday from Las Cruces, New Mexico to Tucson, Arizona.

We left Coachlight RV Park (full hook-ups - PA rate $18) at 8:30 Friday morning. About twenty miles west of Las Cruces was a border patrol check stop, which we were quickly waved thru.

Then it was a lot of this:

This whole area was pretty soggy. That may look like white snow on the ground (on the other side of the train tracks) but it's actually huge puddles of rain water soaking into the desert.

The trip from Red Bay, Alabama to Tucson, Arizona was 1554 miles or 2500 kms.

And (hope it doesn't go to his head, but) we made the trip in one piece thanks to this good-lookin Fella, who is such an awesome driver.

(I notice he's gone a bit more grey this trip - is it road stress or Kelsi stress? Either way it's certainly helping us sneak into those 55+ parks   :) 

51 Minutes from El Paso to Las Cruces

These are the final pics from Wednesdays travel day.

We drove 461 kms from a rest stop just past Wickett, Texas to our RV park in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Here was our first peek at El Paso, Texas - population 650,000. 

there was lots of road construction in progress, like every other major city we've driven thru

the majority (85%) of the population of El Paso is hispanic

exit to the border crossing into Juarez, Mexico

from the interstate you can clearly see the border wall separating El Paso from Juarez

(every single time I see that wall I feel so lucky to be born in Canada, surrounded by opportunity - it's really all just luck of the draw, isn't it?)

Pictured below is housing on the Mexican side of the border; shanty style houses, huts and trailers, many of them missing windows and doors.  There are no vehicles in the pic and I honestly don't know if anyone lives there - but it looks very similar to the hillside housing at the Nogales, Mexico border.

The Juarez Mountains are in the background.     

The north end of El Paso is minutes away from the New Mexico state border.

lots of dairy farms along this stretch of I-10

entering our destination city of Las Cruces, New Mexico (population 97,000) - in the background you can see the Organ Mountain Range

It's day two of our rest stop in Las Cruces, and although we really like this part of the USA, JohnnyDisco will be back on the I-10 Friday morning, westbound for Tucson.

But before ending this post, I have to show you what My Fella picked up today at The Outlet Shoppes at El Paso.

When it comes to shoes, he's like the male version of Imelda Marcos.

And now my manly Fella is the proud new owner of the hot pink trimmed golf shoes, pictured above. The size 13 pink PUMA shoes retail for $110 US dollars, but he picked them up at the PUMA outlet store for $5 bucks. 

(this would be the perfect time for me to make a smart-alec comment about my guys shoe fetish - but as the owner of twelve identical khaki GAP miniskirts, I'm really in no position to judge)