Driving to Albuquerque.

After seeing the memorial and spending 3 nights in OKC, we were ready to start back on the road. We discussed briefly the idea of spending the night in Amarillo, TX but were making great time in great weather, and felt pretty good. As far as we could tell from the interstate there really isn't much to Amarillo so we decided to press on.

The drive from OKC to ABQ is not particularly exciting. 540 miles of gradually gaining elevation and green turning into brown. IN Amarillo there is a restaurant where if you can eat there 72 oz (4.5 pound for the math disinclinded) steak with the sides in less than an hour, its free. Somewhere in Texas just south of 40 there is a cross that is several hundred feet high. They claim it to be the largest in the western hemisphere. I wonder where the biggest one is? We didn't stop.


We actually were still miles away from the thing at this point.
















This is basically the experience of driving from OKC to Amarillo.


















So we cleaned the windshield a lot because there were a lot of bugs. Here is a sampling of dead insects from my rear view mirror.