05-11-2009

Day 1: On the Road

Our first day started out slow. We had intended to leave at 8am in the morning. After several mishaps and a oil change we finally left town at 9am.

The drive through Oklahoma was uneventful. Actually Oklahoma contains nothing of value to look at while driving with the exception of downtown OKC. The clouds were clouds and the rain stayed away.

Crossing into Texas spiced things up...a little. It contained gullies that must have been created by flash floods. From Amarillo, we headed north through some random towns where we became concerned that we were being profiled as out of towners..."not from around these parts are ya, boy?"The perfect example of the pan handle area of Texas. You can see as far as the haze and the curvature of the Earth will let you.

From the best we can tell...Texas does not have anything close to a mountain but you can see this one from Texas. This is probably 30 miles away at this point. Weird part of it is that they are just all by them selves. No other mountains to be seen.

After pushing through pan handle part of Texas we found our selves in New Mexico. Matt claims that New Mexico may be the freakiest place that he has seen in his life. I might agree. We would drive for literally 50 miles and see nothing but cows...no houses or even other cars for that matter. Who owns these cows? The interstate also had the tendency to change the speed limit from 70 to 45...for about 5 miles. The reason for the slow down...A SINGLE DIRT ROAD that led to another city that remained unseen over the horizon.

This picture looked amazing in real life...I about lost the camera at 70 mph trying to take it. Totally Worth it. (In NM)

This sign shows an example of a 50 mile stretch of highway. This stretch is a "Safety Corridor". I can not see what they did to make it safe or unsafe. It is a perfectly straight perfectly flat road with the speed limit reduced and fines doubled...It is safer because they make more money on it.

Colorado is interesting as well with all of the mountains. We also saw only what I could describe as antelope. We wondered why they were so brave to just stand out in the open and why deer did not do this in Arkansas. Maybe because the crazies in Arkansas would just shoot them while driving down the road?

Welcome to Colorado sign. It says it is Colorful...in my opinion it is rather bland.

We found where Colorado's finest citizens are housed. We thought this was the famed Fosum Prison because there were signs talking about a city named Fosum...this was until we found out Fosum Prision is in California...what a bummer...dude

We ended up arriving in pueblo at 8:00pm cst. But were not able to find our hotel until at least 30 minutes later.

Went to eat at Cracker Barrel. Really interesting waitress told us how she hated Colorado. She was originally from Wisconsin. After a bit of talking we found out she was planning move to California. She had fallen in love with a guy over the internet. Oh the magical powers of the internet. We warned her that LA would steal her soul while unsuccesfully attempting to convince her not to move there.

Tomorrow is promising to be an amazing day with a great ending once we hook up with Alexandria.