Today’s breakfast was, of course, enjoyed again at the El Camino Restaurant & Lounge in Socorro, New Mexico, before striking off on the scenic route through Magdalena on our way back to Arizona.

The drive out here on the western side of the middle of New Mexico is lots of endless beauty.

Along the way, we passed the Very Large Array pictured above.

A lone pronghorn sheep acts as a cattle guard near the intersection of Datil. We’ll keep on driving toward Pie Town, and for the umpteenth time, we’ll yet again strike having yet to taste the pie in Pie Town.

Back in Arizona, the clouds will give way to blue skies and the cold became a distant memory as the baking Phoenix desert welcomed us back with hazy smoke-filled horizons due to a fire 40 miles away.