We skipped the Interstate and went cross-country on our way back from Tucson this weekend. Cut 250 miles off the journey, as we sliced diagonally across Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. Mostly the route was fast and as flat as a pancake, but it had its diversions, like the Salt River Canyon, above, where we paused for some drama. Kathleen loves reading a good murder mystery, often the husband offs his wife in some diabolical plot made to look like an accident. So it wasn't too big a stretch for her when the photographer teased, "Kathleen, please, just a little more to your right."
