There's really not a lot to report here for this one. Today was pretty much an all-out driving day - 560 mi, no sightseeing. I took a slightly indirect route, going up through Lubbock and Clovis, because it meant that all the driving was on divided highway (but not interstate!), which is probably safer than 200 miles on 2-lane roads. Observations:
- It rains really, really hard between Dallas and Abilene.
- West of Abilene (or thereabouts) it clears up really fast as you enter desert landscape - which finally looked like the mental image I have of Texas.
- There's a really big wind farm all along US-84 going north of I-20, which provides an interesting contrast to the otherwise flat landscape. The town of Levelland, TX is named completely without irony. It's flat out there.
- Texas Tech football must be really big in Lubbock, because, wow - that city is far from everything.
- The gas station I stopped at in Clovis was a bad choice. It was, by far, the slowest gas pump I've ever used. I've hit a few bad gas stations along the way (the one in Monticello, NY that didn't auto-shutoff and spilled a quart of gas all over the side of my car comes to mind), and add this one to the list. I think it took somewhere between 10 and 15 minutes to pump 10-ish gallons of gas. Time goes by really slowly when you can actually see the thousandths digit on the gas pump increment.
- The "Chicken 65" roll at Zyka (an Indian restaurant) in Dallas is really, really good. And it makes a great snack on the road.
- I hit 30,000 miles on the car today (remember that I hit 25,001 just as I arrived at my cousin's house near Boston).
- God bless New Mexico, for it has restored my faith in Mexican food, after it was shaken by the junk they call by that name in Boston. This is how Mexican should be done, with tasty cheese, chips that don't taste like cardboard, salsa that isn't just Pace, legit enchiladas, and green chile:
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