Initially I was going to title this blog, "The Elusive Tumbleweed". Let me tell you those things are pretty hard to take a picture of, from a moving vehicle. This is how much of a city girl I am. On our drive out of Amarillo, TX towards Albuquerque I kept seeing these small dried stick bushes rolling or "tumbling" down the road. I asked Scott, "Is that a tumbleweed"? I had Scott watching as I pointed the camera at the road trying to get a picture of this thing. They are not as soft as I thought they would be and I thought that they were pretty cool to see, until they kept "tumbling" into the side of the coach. It is hard to avoid a moving abject when you don't know which way it is going to come at you. What a tourist. By late morning the wind started to pick up pretty significantly. Then the wind, dust and tumbleweeds became almost scary. I found out that we were in the middle of some sort of storm with sustained winds of 20 miles per hour and gusts up to 60 miles per hour. Not fun. We had a little technical difficulty with the slide out awning, so we decided to pull into the Flying J (For those non 'Big Riggers' out there a Flying J is a trucker gas station) to wait it out. We got back on the road, but decided to take it slow. It was a pretty long day, but we finally made it to Albuquerque. Tomorrow we leave for the Grand Canyon. By the way I checked the weather and it is 27 degrees there. Oh no!
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Did you know that "Albuquerque" is the last song of "Weird Al" Yankovic's Running With Scissors album. At 11 minutes and 25 seconds, it is the longest song Yankovic has ever released on any of his official studio albums.
Safe Travels!! - Mike
Okay.. so I just put together a fantastic comment and then because I am new to this closed it! So this one may not be as as good as the first....
I was planning on sending some advice on traveling through Arizona so here it goes...
If you thirsty for some water and only see cactus don't cut it down... you could go to prison for 25 years for that!
Also, to save you from any fines or punishments do not wear suspenders in Nogales, refuse a person a glass of water, or mess with cottontails or bullfrogs in Hayden, however if you are going to do any of these things besure not to wear a red mask because then a little misdemeanor is considered a felony.
One last thing.... don't let the donkeys sleep in the bathtub it is soooo against the law!
Have fun in Arizona and stay out of trouble!
Miss you!
Cedar
Did you know that in Amarillo I had an actual cowboy tip his hat to me in his good morning wishes? I thought that was so cool and wanted to share that with you!
If you guys get a chance and you may not in your route to Montana, you have to see the Great Sand Dunes, amazing!
Miss you, hope you're having the time of your life!
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