Richard & Sylvia's RV Adventures

Day 25 - Monday, March 26, 2007

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Albuquerque, NM — 546 Miles

This has been the longest driving day of the trip!  We left in the rain and drove into the sunshine.  We left Oklahoma City laying at about 1,200 ft in altitude to go up and up as we crossed the Texas panhandle and continued to go up to beyond 7,000 ft as crossed through New Mexico. We drove through Amarillo, Texas and were not impressed by the area.  As we drove through the western part of the Texas panhandle and into New Mexico Sylvia noticed many towns with German names (e.g., Stuttgart).  Sylvia stated she had never seen such expansive vistas, nothing in the way but prairie grasses and big sky.  You had to look hard to be able to tell where the land ended and sky began on the Horizon. This was the first time she saw the plains. With such expansive land she was expecting herds of Buffaloes being chased by Indians…  must be too many western movies.   Later on we found out that the previous Friday 13 tornados had come through the very area we traveled.   Good news… Bad news…. Good news is that we were not there at that time, the bad news is that they did a lot of distruction and people who lived there suffered.

We noticed that we really don’t do well after about 6 hours of driving.  The constant moving of the rig and the change in altitude gave us both a headache and we wound up not being a patient with each other as we would normally be. 

We have to do a better job in planning the distance we will travel each day in the future.

posted by Richard @ 12:10 AM