I had not intended to return to Southern California for Christmas vacation when I was teaching at the Academy during the break of Christmas 1978. However, one of my students from San Diego urged me to drive so that he could hitch a ride as far as Tucson--he would help with the driving on the way.
We took I-25 south through Albuquerque. Before we reached El Paso, we turned West and continued across southern New Mexico and Arizona until Tucson. I dropped him off at his parents' house and stayed at a Holiday Inn in Tucson before driving on. I believe we stopped somewhere along the way near Santa Fe the first night and had dinner at a motel restaurant. He found a hair in his food.
After my motel stay in Tucson, I continued across to San Diego and turned north to San Pedro, staying with mom and visiting friends and family.
Unfortunately, I had to drive back to Colorado Springs by myself since the cadet found another way to get back to the Academy. (He may have flown from San Diego.)
The drive back was rather boring. At the New Mexico-Colorado border, Raton Pass, the roads were very icy and the drive a bit treacherous in a car with rear wheel drive and me without chains. But I made it back home all right.
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