Travelling to Arizona

New Mexico landscape

Travelling to Arizona was simply longer than we expected.  No, we expected it; experiencing it was different.  We drove for hours wondering if we will ever arrive.

New energy features in South Texas

Going through Texas was a mixed experience feeling.  You had the vast expansion of landscape that was different from the east coast, then the signs of new energy with the wind farms, but the old and ugly energy vestiges were inescapable.

The scenes of old Texas with the industrialized side of the energy sector were only a few hours of the trip but it seemed interminable.  At least that's how Debbie remembers it.  And I can understand that.

We broke the monotony and stopped at a park where we saw some strange ducks.  Those were not in any of my books or apps.  I'll call them "horned duck".  Don't look it up! I made it up.

New Mexico landscape

New Mexico certainly has a unique landscape.  Arid, but pretty arid.  Rocky mountains, wait! those are just big hills, no, mountains, hard to tell.  Then desert shrub expanses, and back to some greens, back to rocky, always changing.  Nice!

We traveled all day and never made it to Arizona.  Tired, we spent the night in a cozy hotel in Las Cruzes.  The bed was either very comfortable or we were very tired.  And I forgot the name of the hotel, so we must have been very tired.

We saw Ciudad Juàrez, a city in Mexico when we were going through El Paso. This was before reaching Las Cruces.  Lots of lights on both sides of the border.  Juàrez is big! We got messages from our cellular phones offering deals on using our phones in Mexico.  That's how close we were to Mexico.

We reached Arizona the next day.  As we pulled in to our campground we saw the Greater Roadrunner! A bird on our target list.  This promises to be good!