Woke up with a headache. At 5:30am. Because of course. So after laying around all morning, I got on with my final, procrastinated chores and actually drove away at 3:30pm. 😞
The drive west was uneventful, and by that I mean boring. It was cloudy, which was nice for driving into the sunset, and the traffic was non-existent! The two lanes nowadays are so much better, both surface and passing-wise, anyway. After a quick stop in Liberal, continued south on 54, through Guymon, OK and Dalhart, TX. Managed to shoot the gap between two thunderstorms around the OK/TX border, but did get a nice lightning show! 🌩
Made it to the near-halfway point of Tucumcari, NM about 10:30 Mountain Time. So a solid 8 hrs on the road. Tomorrow, gonna check out the downtown here…it is on Historic Route 66! Then taking highway 60 across NM and into Arizona. It runs parallel to Interstate 40, just to the south. It also goes through a place called Pie Town, which I saw on a PBS travel show 🍰
Random Fact of the Day: Interstate numbers go up as they go north and east. Also, even numbers run east/west, and odd numbers go north/south. I knew this already, but this link explains it in more depth.
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