Day two of our trip. Again, we woke up too early. We thought it was around 7 am, but it was really around 430, am. The clock in the room was blinking, so the electricity went out sometime during the night. Also, there was a light over the curtain, along with the fact that Arizona is 1 hour ahead of California time. The whole time thing got us. When we finally realized it wasn’t 7, we had already Had our showers, and put on clean cloths. When we out the door at 7, it was still dark, and freezing cold. We went ton breakfast, then headed on down the road. Remember, it was freezing cold.
As the morning went on, it never warmed up. When we tried to wipe the moisture off our windows, it was frozen, on the inside. Cars were passing us, and throwing up dirt on our windshield, and all we could do was turn on our wipers, the windshield fluid was frozen. Anyway, we kept traveling on down 40 East. We drove in and out of the snow. It was so pretty, but it never snowed, until later.
Ya know when you see old western movies, the cowboys and Indians are out in the open plains, and it seemingly never ends. This is what it felt like. John described this open space to me like this. “You can shoot a bullet, go to where it landed, and shoot another one, and never hit anything in between.†That is exactly what some of this landscape was like. It was so amazing to look out the window, and see forever. It never warmed up by the way.
As we drove, pretty soon it started to snow, just very lightly. Our wiper fluid still was frozen, until around 1 or 2. All we could do was use our wipers, everyone else was in the same predicament. Only one time were we in a scary situation where we couldn’t see. That only lasted a few seconds, but that was long enough. As we drove, the landscape changed from tumbleweeds, to scattered small growth, to a normal looking forest, and back to tumbleweeds again.
After we got into New Mexico, it started to really snow. I thought for sure it would slow down, but it only got worse. We followed trucks and more trucks, for miles. I was talking pictures all the time. I was really starting to want to get a room, and get off the roads. We drove till Albuquerque, then got a room. By that time, the snow was so thick, and showed no signs of stopping, and I was eager to land in a room somewhere. So that is where we are now. It has finally quit snowing, and it’s a good thing we stopped. 40 was shut down into Texas, so we would have been stranded. We have salami and cheese and a few snacks, I have my wine, we will survive I think till tomorrow.
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