What a great trip! You'll have lots of good memories after that one.
Here's a video I took in 2015 on the way to El Paso from Tucson:
Leaving Tucson
A little later on that leg near Deming, NM, I skirted the
Florida Mountains
You probably saw the same scenery.
(Note: The resolution will be much higher if you download the videos and play them from your own computer rather than through the Internet.)