Wednesday, August 13, 2008
PS: In answer to comments: we have been very glad this entire trip for air conditioning and a well-functioning Subaru. The air's been on since we left New Jersey at 9am Saturday morning, except when we scale hills and need to allow the slow engine all it's power. ;-) We've been lucky weather-wise. We only hit 90-degree temperatures today; it's been oddly temperate otherwise. But still the sort of weather that makes one very grateful for air conditioning technology and the good service work of Joe at Cranbury Auto on Rt. 130.
Lucky Thirteen
Greetings from Tucumcari, N.M., where we're laying low for the evening. We pulled in after a race across the Texas panhandle this afternoon, riding through sunshowers, lightning, cows, and tumbleweeds. If that's not an indication of our arrive in the American West, I'm not sure what is.
This morning, we visited the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in OKC, OK, a wonderful, clean museum with a recreated Western outpost, Prosperity Junction. ;-)
It was a fun stop along the highway, filled with rodeo photographs, belt buckles, painted vistas, and turquiose jewlery. We've also become a bit of a novelty; when docents ask where we're from, we get surprised looks and excited antedoctes about visits to the Cape or daughters who went to college in Boston. Haven't seen a New England or Midatlantic liscence plate in a few days, either.
Some further highlights of the day included cherry limeade from a Braum's Dairy Story in Nowhereville, OK.
And, of course, the Western Hempshere's largest cross along the highway in Texas.
We speed right through the panhandle, stopping only in Amarillo for dinner in the hip downtown neighborhood. It was onward toward the Land of Enchantment, and we're staying along a stretch of historic Rt. 66, an outcropping of hotels and gas stations surrounded by the grassy transition from plains to desert.
Tomorrow, we'll visit Ben's old stomping grounds in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Friday, we arrive at our first major destination of the Great Sonoran Adventure: Oro Valley, est. 1997. [Edited to add: 2082 miles down since Plainsboro; 700 more to go. Easy peasy.]
More soon and hope everyone else is well.
This morning, we visited the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in OKC, OK, a wonderful, clean museum with a recreated Western outpost, Prosperity Junction. ;-)
It was a fun stop along the highway, filled with rodeo photographs, belt buckles, painted vistas, and turquiose jewlery. We've also become a bit of a novelty; when docents ask where we're from, we get surprised looks and excited antedoctes about visits to the Cape or daughters who went to college in Boston. Haven't seen a New England or Midatlantic liscence plate in a few days, either.
Some further highlights of the day included cherry limeade from a Braum's Dairy Story in Nowhereville, OK.
And, of course, the Western Hempshere's largest cross along the highway in Texas.
We speed right through the panhandle, stopping only in Amarillo for dinner in the hip downtown neighborhood. It was onward toward the Land of Enchantment, and we're staying along a stretch of historic Rt. 66, an outcropping of hotels and gas stations surrounded by the grassy transition from plains to desert.
Tomorrow, we'll visit Ben's old stomping grounds in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Friday, we arrive at our first major destination of the Great Sonoran Adventure: Oro Valley, est. 1997. [Edited to add: 2082 miles down since Plainsboro; 700 more to go. Easy peasy.]
More soon and hope everyone else is well.
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