We drove our coach 332 miles, about five hours of driving, from Marathon, Texas to San Antonio, Texas.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:

An interactive map:

Sunrise on travel day:

Goodbye Marathon Motel:

Heading east on US-90; it’s nice to travel on highways, more restful than freeways (as we did on the following day):

Javelinas crossing the road:

Nice canyon:

A pleasant picnic area:

Info sign and lookout:

Our coach:

Bridge:

Pecos River:

Another bridge:

Low water level:

Immigration inspection station:

Our first sight of an H-E-B for many months (our favorite supermarket in Texas):

Rest area:

Downtown San Antonio:

Arriving at our KOA destination for a one night stay:

Guided to our site:

We drove our coach 301 miles, about five hours of driving, from Las Cruces, New Mexico to Marathon, Texas.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading southeast:

An interactive map:

Joining I-10 East:

Recycled Roadrunner artwork at a rest stop:

Rio Grande with a little water due to rain (it was dry when we drove past earlier in the week):

Nice mountains beyond Las Cruces:

Leaving New Mexico:

Welcome to Texas:

Looking over the border into Mexico:

Playing El Paso while leaving El Paso:

Fuel stop:

Rainy drive:

Immigration checkpoint:

Entering Central Time Zone:

A long building on a trailer at stop opportunity:

Rainbow:

Sun rays:

A blimp (I think used for watching the border with Mexico), grounded probably due to the lightning storms in the area:

Picnic area stop:

Arriving at Marathon Motel & RV Park:

Our site:

We drove our coach 260 miles, about four hours of driving, from Winterhaven, California to Tucson, Arizona.

Here’s a map showing our route, heading east:

An interactive map:

Exiting the RV park:

I-8 East entrance:

Arizona State Line over the Colorado River:

Welcome to Arizona:

Fuel stop:

Closed US Border Patrol Checkpoint:

6% downgrade:

Interesting rocks:

Rest area:

Paladin sat in his dash bed for quite a while while we drove on the freeway:

Then Paladin snuggled with me for a while:

Saguaro cacti:

Parking area:

Cotton field:

I-8 joined I-10:

Very large dump truck part:

Interesting rocks:

Sun rays:

Arrival:

Check in area (the gate guy said someone would come to us with the paperwork, but after waiting for 10 minutes someone told us that he was wrong, we needed to go into the hotel reception to check in):

Double rainbow:

Rainbow from our site: