Well this has been truly an eventful day, starting with logging 1200 kms in total! I can do an Iron Butt, I can do the same in a cage.
I thought I had come to the realization that the Jeeps navigation system was sending me on some wild goose chases but after talking with my mother and looking at my google route, they are in fact the same. I didn't recall the town names that it sent me thru from SLC, nor at the one stop and it being another 5 hours to Albuquerque but I was wrong, they were the same. And again this evening, I have no idea on the route it sent me but I was starting to sweat. More on that later. I ended up travelling thru 3 states again today, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.
Anyways, I started off nice and early at 7am and got on the highway into SLC. I was told that it is a total nightmare except for Sundays between 10 and 2. Well I was quite impressed as I only really slowed to under 20mph once and the rest of the time traffic was moving at around 60. Hence why I was able to pull off 300 km within about 2 hours with my first check in at Price, Utah. I left there and carried on and I have to say it was a very boring drive and desolate. The only part I liked was Moab.
Speaking of Moab, I almost decided to stay as there was a Jeep Jamboree and they were everywhere, some covered in the red mud of the area, others on their way in to play in the canyons. The town it self is super cute also. I would love to go back and check it out more, maybe on the way home. Lots of the red rock and arches along the way.
I got excited entering Colorado as there were finally some tress and green space but nothing really eventful thru there. Then well we entered New Mexico and if it wasn't for the change in landscape I wouldn't have known as there was no "welcome to" sign. Again New Mexico is another desolate landscape. Sure in a few spots there are the cliffs and rocks but otherwise very desolate. I did manage to catch a tumbleweed in my bumper! New Mexico really needs to work on their highways as I feel like I have whiplash or shaken baby syndrome. It was pretty bad with dip after dip after dip in a row, like riding a small rollercoaster. This was also causing the Jeep to bounce around all over the place, mind you doing 80mph probably didn't help. Even the semi's were all over the road.
Anyways, I persevered and made it into Albuquerque at about 6 so I decided to keep going and knock off a few hours for tomorrow. Well, I had already looked before about possible motels along the route into Roswell and there were some, so I figure I could stop along the way, if I didn't want to go all they way. All was good along the Interstates and then the Nav told me to turn off onto a secondary highway. It was pitch black along this road and yet it was still a 70mph zone. All good besides the acres of flashing red lights in the distance. I kept going, as I didn't really have a choice but I was starting to get sketched out. I was waiting for a little grey man to be standing in the road! I kept going waiting to find a town but I kept going and going and nothing. It was probably about an hour down the road and I'm starting to get a bit concerned as I'm now closing in on a quarter of a tank of gas. I was trying to compute in my head the distances from what the road sign said to the distance in kms on my nav and things weren't adding up. when the nav told me to turn again, I pulled over to decide if I was going to listen to it or find this town. My phone said I was basically in it. Then I checked for motels and it said that there were some so away I went to find the town.
Thankfully, I managed to get a room and there is a gas station so I was able to settle for the night instead of going further. So now I am in for the night, with flashing red lights all around and I have heard choppers overhead a couple times. If you don't hear from me tomorrow then I may have been abducted!!
For now, we are all good and heading for the area of Laredo, Texas tomorrow.
From Kahlua and I, Wags and wishes
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