On Christmas Day, Marijke and I are going to New Mexico.

We'll arrive in Albuquerque around lunch time, Marijke from Pittsburgh and me from New York.

I am just beginning to get excited; thinking about what to pack or rather how to pack, one of my bete noirs, packing is but thrilled to be able to think about another adventure with my daughter.

We haven't traveled regularly together but we've done it swell. Last trip was to Sicily just before the little Anya Zoe was born six months later.