Got car off the dolly with help from friendly Michigan neighbor at RV Park. He is about to drive away and sees Bob struggling to figure out what to do. He stops his vehicle and, explaining that he has been in many similar predicaments before, gets out some wooden blocks and jacks up the front of the car.
He will not allow his wife or I to help push the car off. Putting the car in Neutral, they let the car roll backwards off the blocks. As a result of all the pushing, Bob ends up with bruises the size of a pear on his arm and chest. But I guess you don't argue with a gift horse.
We see lots of housing developments with houses so close together it looks like a prison or military complex. No trees soften the landscape.
Giant irrigators fascinate us. There are many types,that spray from both bottom and top. They rotate and move along the field automatically. As a result, the corn is so much greener than we have seen before. It is such a contrast with the brown and scrubby land around the fields.
More windmill farms. It is very windy today. We are beginning to see mesas in the distance. There is something on top of the mesas. Are they windmills or radio towers?
There is no evidence of solar energy use. That surprises us. One thing that is pleasing, though, is that there have been no billboards for over 100 miles.
The terrain dramatically changes from TX to NM. There are grey grasses.
We are on Historic Route 66. At Dell's Restaurant, there is a giant cow on the roof.
Along the roadside, we see train tracks with double container trains on them, possibly heading for a shipping port where they will be loaded on a tanker.
I start calling this area "Mesa Land". Did wind shear off the tops?
We see some antelope on the range. Reminds us of a song......
There are lots of 1940's and 50's cars rotting in the sun, in the middle of a vast field of scrub.
We have a nice relaxing dinner with Uncle Arthur Byers at Olive Garden in Albuquerque. We are able to treat him to dinner courtesy of one of our generous wedding guests.
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