I missed the Aggies loose to UTEP for this?

Memorial Day is a US holiday that takes place on the last Monday of May every year. It was formerly known as Decoration Day. The holiday commemorates US men and women who died in military service for their country. More notably to most Americans it means a 3-day weekend and traveling across the country.

Chelsie, Carrie, Lindsey and I took an inter-state trip to the retirement capitol of southern Arizona: luxurious, Green Valley. Green Valley is to Tucson as Sun City is to Phoenix, as Florida is to the United States, as… bottom line is nobody under the age of 60 lives there.

The 292-mile trip took about 4 hours each way from Las Cruces. As shown on this here map, we cruised I-10 east till somewhere near downtown Tucson and then went south on I-19 till we got to Green Valley.


You’re all probably wondering why the hell a of couple college students would elect to spend the only 3-day weekend of vacation in the fall semester traveling to Green Valley, Arizona. We went to visit “Grandma Joyce,” Chelsie's Dad's Mom. I’d never met her before and despite warnings of religious preaching and overall unpleasantness I was amped to go and had a lot of fun meeting the old bag and listing to all her old people stories. More than anything I went because Chelsie asked me to, it was important to her that I meet her favorite Grandma.

I met a few other soon to be family-in-law-people as well this weekend, compounding to my opinion that overall Chelsie’s family is pretty chill.

On the return trip the four of us laughed the entire way back about all kinds of stuff and in addition to counting trucks with teeth, we played with a head butting finger puppet, and made fun of how Chelsie sorts when she laughs so hard she cant breath.