Left New Mexico behind to head across the panhandle. Now it looks like we'll cross the northern edge of Texas too. We had wanted to camp in OK, but the OK state park system won't do online reservations less than 5 days in advance. All other states we have stayed in allow one day. So much for OK.
The change in landscape has been very interesting. A lot of people say it all looks alike out here. I see a lot of variety during a day's drive. The very stark, flat, desert of eastern NM gives way to equally flat Texas but the land use gradually changes to irrigated agriculture. It seems that the panhandle is cotton country. Then the mix of ag and wind turbines. North of Lubbock we run into turbines as far as we can see both north and south of us. I didn't notice how far we drove by them, but a couple years ago we saw the same sight for 50 miles west of Amarillo. It was cool to see the number of farms producing both cotton and electrons. That's followed by some low rolling hill country.
Then I saw 4 deer right on the side of the road. No, not road kill, live deer. Thinking about becoming road kill by the looks of things. I had seen some raised deer stands a few miles before.
Tonight we are in Copper Breaks State Park in Quanah TX. The town was named for Quanah Parker, the last war chief of the Comanche.
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| Some different than the cactus country we have been in. But onlu because of irrigation. |
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| A bit of rolling hills. Hey, it's all relative. |
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| Hiking in Copper Breaks SP |
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| The greenish color is the copper deposits |
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