Therapy From 5,000 Feet: Trek from VA to AZ

Originally, I was going to brave the drive out to AZ two days after Christmas and make it a four day journey. The week of Christmas I started thinking - three of the four days would include 10 hours of driving. There's no way I could accomplish that feat!! So I pushed up my trek a day early and left after my last few hours of therapy at Remuda. Five days, six states, 2500 miles, lots of Wendy's chicken nuggets, and one sore butt later, I pulled in to Phoenix on Jan. 30. I saw some interesting things from the driver's seat, including (but not limited to!)...

Day one (mostly driving in the dark) - a large group of deer eating grass fairly near to the freeway; a shooting star in Tennessee; incredibly dense fog around southern Virginia

Day two (completely done in Tennessee) - mountain tops covered in fog; beautiful hills and farmland

Day three (Arkansas and part of East Texas) - there is nothing good to say about Arkansas...that place is so ugly! Or at least the roads I was on. A gorgeous Texas sunset over a lake nearby Dallas; my wonderful friend Misty!

Day four (Texas) - there is nothing extraordinary about West Texas...however, there were some cotton fields being harvested and hundreds of wind energy turbines across the flat plains; my family!

Day five (West Texas, New Mexico, Arizona) - hmmm, again, nothing extraordinary to see. Although, I do appreciate seeing sunsets over the desert. There are too many forests along the East coast to see really great sunsets; my husband after being apart for 13 days!

(Don't ask me why, but I didn't think to take pictures from the road till day 4)