If you have read these messages you know we get “into” highways, that’s US highways, not interstates. As we left Las Cruces on US 70 we eventually transitioned to US 54. Typically US highways run N/S or E/W For some reason when they laid out US 54 which is designated E/W (even number) they actually ran it NE from Las Cruces, that is on a diagonal. 

It was fun as we traveled across NM on that diagonal for 3 nights. The road traversed many grades as we climbed to the High Plains.  Then today we crossed from NM to TX and then on into OK across the Panhandle to KS where we spent the night at Mid-America Air Museum, our third time stopping there. Today we continued on US 54 which eventually merged with US 400 into Wichita KS. Tomorrow we will bid farewell to US 54 and get on I 35 to KC. I could post a boo to taking the Interstate,  but there really is no better route to get us there for a get together with Dianne and Marty, friends from sometime in the 70’s 

Even more than our addiction to highways is our addiction to keeping up with friends from forever ago. We will stop to see a college roomate, Lee, who we actually have known almost as long as we have known each other (first grade) and a friend from Rochester who moved away to FL many years ago and recently moved to Cleveland so we can visit. Visits in FL required a trip to a state we choose not to enter. That has nothing to do with politics!!! It is flat, crowded and humid.

I’ll report on highways and friends as we go.