April 2022 and a bit of May
Leaving Arizona On Saturday, April 8th, following a week of parties, car checkups, packing, and goodbyes, we set out on a roundabout path to New Orleans with Casita in tow. The first night we stayed in a New Mexico state park outside of Almagordo and the following day drove north across the lovely rolling plains of eastern New Mexico to Amarillo (TX) on two lane roads with little traffic. Amarillo was much as we remembered it, busy, growing, with lots of traffic; we were glad to carry on to Norman (TX) where we overnighted with Diane and Lenny, friends of Melanie's from many years ago, and friends of mine for the last forty years or so. That eveningI enjoyed a few mathematical moments with Lenny. He presented me with some of Einstein's thoughts on relativity via a man in a moving train who drops a ball from shoulder height which he sees fall straight down to the floor of the train car while a man, standing outside the train, sees the ball follow a parabolic path. Fun and games