Our trip to Durango
Day #1, 2 and 3 went just great, albeit the mpg sucked. Today is #4, we're in Amarillo and winds at 25 - 30mph from the south with gusts over 40. Well, crap! Do we go ahead and "chance it" with wors...
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While no offense to folks who live in this area, I do have to wonder.....WHY??? Fort Amarillo did have our site open for today, so we're safely tucked in between a Class A and a huge 5er. Decided so the day would not be a total waste I'd get a load of laundry done. It was all I could do to open the door, then hold onto it and keep it from being blown completely off poor Rocky. Winds right now are steady at about 30mph and, quite honestly, this is not much fun. Rocky is truly rocking, bumping, feels like it's about to lift off. I can only hope those who chose to travel this area today are safe. This day was for sure not on our schedule, but good sense told us that we had no business on I-40 to Alb.
We'd never headed west on I-40 since moving east from CA in '79. Neither of us realized that eastern OK is pretty with rolling hills. But all of a sudden it's flat. As in "flat as a pancake". Oh, the drought....how awful for the farmers and ranchers. That bit of rain that came through a couple of weeks ago, greened up the median on the interstate, but didn't do squat for the miles and miles of land....assume there should have been crops growing or cattle grazing, but other than a few places where they irrigate, it was truly pitiful.
Hoping this wind is over and tomorrow is drivable. We don't mind slow, but standing still is not a good thing here today.
We'd never headed west on I-40 since moving east from CA in '79. Neither of us realized that eastern OK is pretty with rolling hills. But all of a sudden it's flat. As in "flat as a pancake". Oh, the drought....how awful for the farmers and ranchers. That bit of rain that came through a couple of weeks ago, greened up the median on the interstate, but didn't do squat for the miles and miles of land....assume there should have been crops growing or cattle grazing, but other than a few places where they irrigate, it was truly pitiful.
Hoping this wind is over and tomorrow is drivable. We don't mind slow, but standing still is not a good thing here today.
