Following the roads Caroline and I drove the week before, I took Rinku Shah and Jay Patel out for a day trip so these two could get away from Phoenix for a moment.

If I’ve not already shared this, Jay is leaving America later this summer, and so Caroline and I are doing our best to make sure he leaves with an extra suitcase worth of memories of his time seeing the United States from the ground as he’s already seen a bit from flying over it, but not from the road.

That is the Mogollon Range out there on this beautiful day to be taking a road trip with friends.

Our first real stop of the day is at the Catwalk Recreation Area east of Glenwood, New Mexico, in Whitewater Canyon.

I told them how Caroline steps into every river, stream, lake, ocean, or other waterway wherever we are traveling and that she’d be surprised to see the two of you following in her footsteps. The water is nearly ice-cold, but I’m guessing you can tell from the looks on their faces.

Seeing Caroline couldn’t join us today, we brought a printout of her from our trip to Disneyland last month.

Had to stop in on a ghost town so bragging rights could be earned from having visited one. From the sign on the theater, you should be able to deduce that we are in Mogollon, which I just wrote about last week.

Instead of heading back south, we went north in the hopes of finding snow, and sure enough, that’s just what we found. I might be wrong, but I think Rinku said this was the first time she’d been in the snow.

You just had to know that we’d have some dancing somewhere during this day; as a matter of fact, this wasn’t the first time.

It was starting to get late in the day as we were driving in the general direction of Phoenix. This is near Greer, Arizona.