On Her Wedding Day............

We are in Oxnard, CA today...waking up to overcast skies........but lovely roses and oleander........and a proximity to the ocean that I have not experienced in years.  I am happy and content.  Making slow progress this morning after being slightly sore from being in a car for the last 48 hours, but getting prepared to pack the car, check out of the hotel, search for Starbucks......and, meander up Highway 1, adjacent to the vast Pacific.

I scanned the news highlights on Google news......and, read about the L.A. wildfires in Palmdale, which is not far from where we are.  I figured that is why the skies yesterday evening were so smoggy/hazy/smoky looking.  After reading about the wildfires, I read a most surprising column by a legal analyst, Andrew Cohen............and, it left me speechless.  To have someone of your past.........a past love.......write about you in such a positive and loving way is such a beautiful thing.........something seemingly non-existent in today's society.  It took my breath away.......

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/07/24/on-her-wedding-day-saying-the-things-left-unsaid/

In New Mexico, on the road to Arizona and then Cali...

Pretty drive yesterday from Dallas....up through Wichita Falls, and Amarillo....on into New Mexico.  We saw lots of beautiful wind turbine farms..huge ones.  And lots of black eyed susan flowers and sunflowers.  Once we got into New Mexico, the scenery changed dramatically.  Lots of mesas...very dry....and virtually nothing on the road that suggested humans lived anywhere nearby for miles and miles.  We stopped at an old Historic Route 66 gas station to top off the tank.  I had the BEST fast food cheeseburger ever in Amarillo.  Apparently, the McDonalds in the panhandle of TX use Angus beef, so I got an 'Angus Burger' with cheese...and I swear, it was the BEST BEST cheeseburger I have had in my life from a fast food restaurant.  Especially McDonalds!  Saw some beautiful lightening storms after passing through the foothills of the Rockies.  We are right next to the Continental Divide.  Got to our destination, Gallup, NM, around 10pm last night, and it was nice and cool outside...in the 60s, so I got out my fleece jacket.  Turned on the weather channel and saw that Dallas was 103...Hahaha!  So glad to be out of that heat!!!  Going to find a starbucks now....and we will be on the road again shortly.  Staying on I-40 for another 600 miles roughly, and then entering Cali.  Staying tonight in Oxnard, CA...just south of L.A.  Taking coast road highway 1 up the coast from Oxnard to San Fran tomorrow.  Can't wait!!  'til next time....