We left Tuesday at dawn, which comes late in Las Cruces, in the shadow of the Organ Mountains, and headed once more onto I-10 West. We manage to once again evade the clutches of Homemade Security at the “Papers Please” checkpoint just west of Las Cruces, but it will only be the first of many as we pass through Arizona and southern California.

West of Tucson, we turned onto I-8, to avoid the Phoenix traffic and to break new ground, neither of us having been across California on I-8. We spent the night in Yuma/Winterhaven, twin cities of RV parks straddling the time zone boundary. An early start gets us well into California by sunup.

At San Diego, we turn north, arriving in Anaheim in early afternoon, in time to do our Thanksgiving shopping: pie and potato salad for everyone and edamame salad for us.