Robomatic, if you try to get AAA to route you through all of the places suggested you'll be on the road until Christmas. Some of them are awfully remote. Pretty, and very interesting, but way off the beaten path. FWIW: The suggestion of Old Town in Albuquerque provides the easiest combination of convenient to the highway (I-40) and a great slice of an ethnic neighborhood in one of the oldest communities in America, let alone the Southwest.

If you decide that staying on the Interstate Highway system is the most efficient way to travel and if you find yourself as far south as Interstate 30 you'll pass through Fort Worth. And a few miles south of 30 is I-20, which is a few blocks from my house. Come visit the garden and compost pile. And we have a spare bed or three. Take home a Texas souvenir, a fossil from the creek in my back yard.

Are you driving back to Boston from San Diego? Maybe the places you miss on the way out you can catch on the way back. You'll get home by Easter that way. . .

SRS