Thursday, June 14, 2012

1st Day of Summer Vacation

We got an early start out of Ingram this morning.  We were on the road by 8 am.

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Nice lonely drive except for the pretty hills and some tarantulas trying to cross the highway....

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Manuel is so happy to be on the road for a while.....so am I!

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saw many nice wind mills....

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This Allegro Bus had a guitar sign on the door and on the back it had "George Tribute.com"  will have to look who it might be.

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The  oil business is big up here....

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many energy turbine too.....

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We made a quick lunch stop in Pecos, Home of the World's First Rodeo....

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Back on our drive thru the desert....

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How would you like to live in the middle of the Texas desert?  Not me!!!

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We are now out of Texas and in to New Mexico....

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Many many oil rigs....

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Love,  New Mexico is a nice little town with a lot of old, old stuff....

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Passing through Love, we saw fields and fields of what looked like lavender....

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We stopped really early for the night in Carlsbad.....not a bad drive and Manuel felt good.

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Tomorrow, we will head out early....more to come.

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