HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Happy New Year, Everyone!!!!! Any good New Year Resolutions, anyone? I dont like to let myself down, so I never make any.

Texas-size Tumbleweed

We are in Amarillo, TX, again. Drove past the Cadillac Ranch. The temperature is 28 degrees with heavy snow, and we were past the ranch about 7:00 am, so we didnt bother stopping. We are getting loaded with animal parts "not for human consumption". This tumbleweed was in the parking lot. It has since blown away.

I drove in my first snow storm last night. Leaving Albuquerque, NM, I40 goes up a mountain and, of course, that's where the snow was. Luckily we were empty so I didnt have trouble getting up the mountain. The storm lasted about an hour. It is snowing like mad here now, but it is John's turn to drive. We will be spending our New Year's Eve driving. Sounds like a party.

Ho! Ho! Ho!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!!!!!

FBI Sightings

This story begins before I started driving with John. In the US, the FBI is the Federal Bureau of Investigations. So, if you see the FBI something bad probably just happened. John called me on day and said he was at a truck stop and the FBI was there. I said "Really!?!?" He said, "a F...ing Big Indian." So, now we like to point out our FBI sightings. We have seen, really big, guitars, Abe Lincoln, a teapot, a bowling pin, lots of animals, crosses, angels and many more. So, here are two of our FBI sightings. The fork is in Springfield, MO and the Indian is at a truck stop in Big Cabin, Oklahoma.

Cuidad Juarez de Mexico

Last week, we were in El Paso, TX. It borders the city of Juarez, Mexico. We were right at the border. Interstate 10 runs (in part) along the Rio Grande River which is the border of the US and Mexico. It was quite astonishing to see the difference between the two cities. Juarez is a huge city, but the little part we could see was dirt roads in the housing areas. The houses looked as if there are no zoning, or safety laws. They looked like they were built out of plywood. There was a HUGE Mexican flag flying high in the sky. It was really strange for me to see a flag that was not the American flag. It really hit home that just one/two blocks from where we were was a totally different country.

A little side note of no importance, my favorite food is "TexMex" and I ate a hamburger and fries at Wendy's in El Paso, TX!!!!!!!! Didn't get a single bite of anything Mexican.