Day 1 - We're off!

Today it all came together.  We quickly found ourselves quite overdressed and were down to a single jersey and shorts in no time.

It took us a while to escape the city and navigate around much unexpected road construction.

But we soon found ourselves in New Mexico with the US-Mexico border fence just off our port side.









Then the scenery opened up......

 Flood irrigation of the fields - looks rather inefficient  use of water

 Cotton fields getting ready for planting

 Through the numerous groves of nut trees.

Pecans!

And after a rather warm and relatively flat 50+ miles, arrived our lovely AirBnB accommodations for the evening.  We did pay our dues fighting the wind today.  Off shortly for a stroll into town for dinner and sightseeing.