Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Days 19-21, Hot, Endless Driving

Oh my gosh, is it hot in the South!  This sounds so silly to admit, but I never really understood how hot it is down here.  What's worse is that we're just entering the humid regions.  So soon (maybe even tomorrow) it will be hot & humid.  Why did I agree to a summer road trip?
Since visiting our friends in Arizona, the last few days have been determined driving: how to get  from southern Arizona to San Antonio, Texas, in the quickest way possible.  Because of our desire to see gunfights in Tombstone, AZ, we were too far south to make sense of driving to the interesting towns in New Mexico--Santa Fe & Albuquerque.  Sorry to all of those that are from New Mexico, but we only saw the boring part of your state which lead into the boring part of Texas: west Texas.  So sorry to all those from west Texas, but your part of the state is overbearingly hot, very windy & filled with random cacti, oil derricks and tanker trucks.  Needless to say, Mike & I drove fast.  And that we did--the speed limits here are so high!  75 in Arizona, 70-75 in New Mexico & 80 in Texas...Californians drive slow.  
But onto the photos...

Day 19: Douglas, AZ.  That's Mexico just behind the van and that obnoxious wall.

Day 20: Just north of the New Mexico/Texas border.  A necessary swim stop in the triple-digit temps.
(We were a bit disappointed in the normalcy of Roswell--we didn't even see any aliens)

Day 21: South Llano River State Park, Junction, TX.  Our next "van" purchase.


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