Day 5 - Fort Stockton, Texas to Moab, Utah

 I woke up around 7ish and decided to just get on the road instead of procrastinating.  Took the dog for a morning walk, got ready and packed the car and hit the road.  Well by 9, I was pulling into Carlsbad, NM and for some reason I thought the time zone had changed as I got there so quickly.  I was wrong, guess I just drove fast.  Oops.  Filled the tank and stopped for a breakfast sandwich for me and the dog.  She happily enjoyed the sausage and cheese bread before going off to sleep again.

I carried on and had a morning convo with my girl on her way to work, she is my entertainment and calls morning and night while Im driving and she is driving to work.  Besides filler conversation she told me about how she broke her big toe in 2 places and needs an air boot and possibly surgery in 3 weeks.

I got to Roswell and again looked around as I drove thru and found the town unremarkable except for the occasional alien statue in front of businesses or space themed names.  I was stopped at a light and there was a UFO Museum that looked like an old movie theatre.

Now my next gas stop was in Vaughn, which was where I stayed on my way down and had the weird red lights and noise that sounded like choppers.  Well in the daylight my next guess was right.  There were train tracks nearby and the lights were from windmills.  Now for some reason the GPS maps decided to change the route on the way back.  When I came along this road it was after going around Albuquerque.  Today it sent me to Santa Fe and the some backroad route to connect back into the highway at Monticello.  I had no idea where I was but was blindly trusting the maps to get mee where I wanded.

I got to Durango and filled up and son of a bitch it was cold.  I was definitely underdressed for 8 degree weather.  I want to know who turned off the heat and the sun, cause at this point it was cold and gray trying to rain.  I left Durango and had to go over a small mountain pass and sure enough it was trying to snow on me.  Shall I say not amused!  The snow stopped but there was small episodes of rain but nothing serious.  I managed to outrun the rain clouds and the sun was out again and I was able to breeze along the last stretch of the trip.  I was getting tired but I said I was going to Moab and be damned if I didn't do it.  I have to remember to save some video files from the dashcam of the scenery coming into town.  It is amazing.  There was one rock formation in the middle of nothing that looked like a giant tit.  I hope the camera got it.

Moab is a super cool little town and is a haven for Jeeps and other 4 wheel vehicles.  I think I passed 20 Jeeps on their way out of town as I was coming in, never mind the ones in town.  And as I said there was a Jeep Jamboree or something when I came thru in October.

All in I travelled about 800 miles or 1300 kilometers today.

Well that's about all of the excitement for today.  I think I may end up in Idaho tomorrow.

Bromistas y Deseos

From Kahlua and I