Happy New Year to everyone.  The Journeycontinues in the morning at 5:00am. Looking everything  look good to go. This last for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years has been great, with Helena and the Friends and her family in Tucson.

2012 is the year of search of the western USA and through Canada.

I will miss all the food I have been putting away and the TV and Movies for the last month. The cable news channels thankfully didn’t dominate the air waves during the day while I was here.

Mostly I will miss being able to attend nearly daily, close by. My journy goal is to find as many churchs and Masses along the way as I can. The first will be tomorrow about 12 miles into the journey at St. Rita’s Chuch in Vail, Az. The evening plan and incentive is to be at Santa Rita Abbey for the evening after 37miles. The Cestercian Nuns have given permission in an email for me camp on the grounds and attend prayers with them. 

My trepidation is in the 37 miles with 30miles of up grade. The elevation gain is 25% of what the total for the whole 1450 mile segment to the Gulf of Mexico coast, estimated by “www.ridewithgps.com

The following picts are of a couple of the churches was able to attend.

St Agustine Cathedral Tucson

St Agustine Cathederal - noon Mass