Another long day in the car. In the morning we went to Fred's auto to get the escort checked out. They brought the car into the garage and put it up on the lift to check it out, we got to watch them from the waiting room. They took off the tires and the banging on the rear break drums, Nick was starting to get worried as the whole crew swarmed around his car. He was making up conversations that the crew might be saying about the car; none of it was good... when they came out to talk to us we were holding our breath, as it turned out we only got the tires balanced and rotated, they said that everything else looked fine.
Full of relief about the car we headed off down the strait long roads again. Oklahoma continued on flat and strait, Texas only offered cattle pens crowded to full awaiting nothing more than a short trip to the slaughter house. It definitely erased any cravings I might have had for a burger! New Mexico offered a little bit of a change of scenery, more shrubbery and cacti then the splotchy grass fields we had just left. Driving through these few states we began to notice that we were getting really bad gas mileage(went from 28-29mpg to 19-20mpg) and we had no idea why until we were talking to someone at a gas station and they mentioned the wind and told us that it wreaks havoc on gas mileage. and sure enough, once we stopped driving into the wind we went back to getting good mileage again. We did get to drive through a mild sandstorm thanks to all the wind, the red sand was blowing across the road in a bunch of different places. It was exciting to see even though I wouldn't want to bee in a big one.
We were excited to see Roswell, though neither of us are real alien buffs. I can't deny that I am a big X-Files fan but I never thought about visiting alien hot spots. We were However very disappointed when Roswell came into view. We had been thinking that it would be a smaller town; one with a meager population, a run down gas station and maybe a funky old diner that served E.T. shakes and alien burgers. Instead we saw sprawling lights that stretched for miles. Once we reached the city that's all we found; a city. Same as any city we had driven through anywhere in the country, except that there were aliens(the classic lime green ones with large heads and eyes) and spaceships outside almost every business. Not really what we were looking for.
Tired and bummed we tried to get a motel room at a place that had a hot tub but they didn't have any vacancy. So we decided to head to a nearby state park; Bottomless Lake SP. We stopped at a gas station to make sure we were headed in the right direction which we were. The woman in the gas station emphasized to me to be careful because the road was curvy. When we got to the road we started laughing because there were about four curves in the road and none of them were very sharp...at all. we found the campground and drove around it a few times, without trees its really hard to figure out where the campsites are. We finally settled on a site at the end of the loop next to a few kids who had a fire going. We set up the tent and got our gear set up and thought about going over and saying hi to out neighbors, but it was really cold and we were exhausted, so we just went to sleep. During the beginning of the night I couldn't get my feet to warm up, I tried with socks then I took them off again, I was rolling around trying to find the warmest position but wasn't having much luck. Nick seemed to be sleeping quite well(he usually stays s bit warmer than I do) so I didn't want to wake him up but about halfway through the night he said he was cold. Nice to know it wasn't just me! We ended up having to unzip our sleeping bags and putting one inside the other even with the extra blanket we had. We shivered our way through the rest of the night but we survived!
Full of relief about the car we headed off down the strait long roads again. Oklahoma continued on flat and strait, Texas only offered cattle pens crowded to full awaiting nothing more than a short trip to the slaughter house. It definitely erased any cravings I might have had for a burger! New Mexico offered a little bit of a change of scenery, more shrubbery and cacti then the splotchy grass fields we had just left. Driving through these few states we began to notice that we were getting really bad gas mileage(went from 28-29mpg to 19-20mpg) and we had no idea why until we were talking to someone at a gas station and they mentioned the wind and told us that it wreaks havoc on gas mileage. and sure enough, once we stopped driving into the wind we went back to getting good mileage again. We did get to drive through a mild sandstorm thanks to all the wind, the red sand was blowing across the road in a bunch of different places. It was exciting to see even though I wouldn't want to bee in a big one.
We were excited to see Roswell, though neither of us are real alien buffs. I can't deny that I am a big X-Files fan but I never thought about visiting alien hot spots. We were However very disappointed when Roswell came into view. We had been thinking that it would be a smaller town; one with a meager population, a run down gas station and maybe a funky old diner that served E.T. shakes and alien burgers. Instead we saw sprawling lights that stretched for miles. Once we reached the city that's all we found; a city. Same as any city we had driven through anywhere in the country, except that there were aliens(the classic lime green ones with large heads and eyes) and spaceships outside almost every business. Not really what we were looking for.
Tired and bummed we tried to get a motel room at a place that had a hot tub but they didn't have any vacancy. So we decided to head to a nearby state park; Bottomless Lake SP. We stopped at a gas station to make sure we were headed in the right direction which we were. The woman in the gas station emphasized to me to be careful because the road was curvy. When we got to the road we started laughing because there were about four curves in the road and none of them were very sharp...at all. we found the campground and drove around it a few times, without trees its really hard to figure out where the campsites are. We finally settled on a site at the end of the loop next to a few kids who had a fire going. We set up the tent and got our gear set up and thought about going over and saying hi to out neighbors, but it was really cold and we were exhausted, so we just went to sleep. During the beginning of the night I couldn't get my feet to warm up, I tried with socks then I took them off again, I was rolling around trying to find the warmest position but wasn't having much luck. Nick seemed to be sleeping quite well(he usually stays s bit warmer than I do) so I didn't want to wake him up but about halfway through the night he said he was cold. Nice to know it wasn't just me! We ended up having to unzip our sleeping bags and putting one inside the other even with the extra blanket we had. We shivered our way through the rest of the night but we survived!
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