Southern New Mexico at 0530 - Thursday
Jill Summerlin, my brother Blake's beautiful wife, woke me up around 0500 this morning to allow me to give her and my nephew, Jonathan (Jonny), a proper goodbye. While New Mexico is one hour later right now than Arizona thanks to the magic of time zones, 0500 and 0600 both feel very similar to me - EARLY! Jill and Jonny left shortly before 0530 (0630) to head north-northeast to White Sands for work and school. I love being near family - and being here in Las Cruces offers family and that desert southwest environment I crave. It may be some time before I see this extension of my family again. Fortunately, their older son, Leyton, whom I recently visited with in Kandahar, Afghanistan, will be home - in Seattle, near Christmas!
We had another wonderful visit in New Mexico. I was able to find little relief for my lower back and knees - I guess two massages in one week does not cut it! I may need three or four massages a week moving forward. Using the hot tub daily has been a treat for both me and my son. Kaesen always enjoys it here because in addition to being around cousins and an aunt and an uncle, he has also historically been able to do many "fun things" while here. Parks, pools, hot tubs, shopping, amusement places, etc., shoot, I would love it for such too.
I plan to load Kaesen's truck here shortly to begin our road trip, albeit a short one, back through Tucson overnight and ultimately to Phoenix tomorrow morning. We will have dinner with my sister, Amy, in Tucson tonight. Tomorrow I have appointments and a meeting in the afternoon in Phoenix. Driving from Las Cruces to Tucson and Phoenix is a piece of cake for Kaesen now that he has his DVD player installed. Most of his young life he did not care for television or DVDs, but now he loves certain educational cartoon and movies. This is great for all!
143, Kaesen.
Good night and good day.
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