A long day's drive, 380 miles in 7.5 hours, one new time zone so it looks like 6.5 hours! Lots of scenery across west Texas to El Paso. That looks like a pretty big city now. And more scenery in New Mexico. It was varied and constantly changing, from the mountains of Big Bend to the open grasslands, to open scrub brush, a mile long pecan orchard in Lobo TX. Downtown Lobo consists of three apparently abandoned houses. Valentine TX has a cool name, but while it is more prosperous than Lobo it's not by a whole lot.
This Oliver Lee state memorial park is quite nice. Up on a hillside overlooking the valley just south of Alamogordo there are lots of lights in the small residential area along the highway without any other lights in the surrounding area. It's overcast so we don't have stars but I am certain it would be great viewing if it was clear.
Off to do some exploring tomorrow.
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| A Texas train |
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| The supermarket in New Mexico doesn't look like the ones in VT! |
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