I LOVE Alamogordo!! We stayed at the AFB just down the road from there, and I ate some of the best enchiladas I've ever had in my life in that town!

Oh DS, I totally have to laugh, I had a similarly odd experience when I went back East for the first time. After growing up in the west and Alaska, I was used to traveling huge distances to go places, so imagine my surprise when my dad and I once drove through 11 states in one day! It was bananas! And the people, there were so many people!!

You and I feel similarly about chiles it seems, I am constantly on a quest to add them to most of the food I eat, and here in the Pacific Northwest food tends to be a little on the mild side. I like the heat!

For some reason I think a Kat and Denise road trip would have us wandering into all sorts of places unseen and roads less traveled, lol! I love taking the back roads and just looking at things, and honestly, aside from the Rufus Debacle, our road trip was pretty magical.

There is nothing pathetic at all about travel tacos! I love it! My Alaskan fisherman uncle brought down seven pounds of fresh halibut he caught this past weekend for Father's Day, and we annihilated that fish like a bunch of feeding piranhas, ha ha.

I have missed you too and I am hoping to be back on a more normal and consistent basis.:)