Day 2 – Benson AZ to Las Cruces

Early to rise and shower. Off to room 233 for the complimentary breakfast. Not bad. Some scrambled eggs, 1 sausage, 2 pieces of bacon, a small blueberry muffin and small yogurt with good coffee.. Got gas and were off by 7:30AM. Road is straight, straight and the thankfully a slight change of direction, then straight, and more straight road. Two hundred twenty seven straight miles later and we were at the Day's Inn Las Cruces by 11AM. Checked in, got settled and said hello to the tour leader, Roger, and the other 2 tour members, Don(small 250cc Kawasaki(hope he can keep up)) and Tom, who is on a big BMW. Jim & I got the bikes off the trailer and parked next to the others.

We all visited Roger, one at a time, to get our liability releases taken care of and give him copies of paperwork he'd requested. That done we retired to the room for awhile and realized we were hungry. It was 1:30 and we'd had nothing since an early breakfast, so it was off to Eddie's Sports Bar next door for a couple good sandwiches and a nice view of the Baltimore, New England playoff game. Sitting her in the room now watching the last of the game and will all go to dinner to get familiar and discuss expectations and cautions for the trip. More tomorrow from Mexico..