Day 9, July 11: Phoenix to El Paso

Goodbye included breakfast with Mom, stepdad Gary and A.J. at Cracker Barrel. And then we stopped at Borders to pick up the Sunday New York Times. We had learned the night before that William Safire had led his column with a largely positive review of "The Elephants of Style"! We also finally picked up the August issue of Writer's Digest, which included an interview of me. Boy, I sure am a celebrity.

The bookstore run put us behind schedule, so there was no time for a stop in Tucson, my old college town.

More to come.