Day 2: 27 March 2007 Walked around Fredericksburg, enjoying its German influence... Visited the Enchanted Rock, the huge granite dome (it's not pink as said in its publication, at least at the time we were there)... so huge it's visible from so far... wished we could climb it as many people did that day... maybe next time when the kids grow bigger....
Continued drive to Amarillo... passed small town Brady... so many bluebonnets found along the road... and strangely also some vultures... this is not a desert, wondering what these birds of death were doing there....
Passed Abilene and stayed overnight in Lubbock, home of Texas Tech Univ... Between Abilene and Lubbock we found countless sucker rods (for pumping oil from the ground) and windmills (for generating energy/electricity)... the wind was indeed so strong there...
Total drive of the day: 380 miles
Day 3: 28 March 2007
Continued to Amarillo... passed small town Tulia (with its slogan: home of richest land, finest people... wow...), took some snapshots of the Cadillac Ranch, a roadside artwork, a modern light version of the prehistoric Stonehenge in England... that's probably too much of an exaggeration....
Finally after driving 861 miles for the past 3 days, we entered New Mexico in the afternoon. Again, we found many windmills along the road. Stopped by the Route 66 monument.
Getting close to Albuquerque, we were greeted and surprised by cold wind... maybe too cold for spring... At the sundawn we reached Albuquerque and stayed overnight here...
Total drive of the day: 420 miles.... so now we are already past 1,000 miles... 1/3 of the plan trip...
Note: As a pic speaks louder than words, I will add some later to my posts when I have more time to select from hundreds I have taken so far...
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