The Road to Cali: Day 2

Albuquerque, NM

In what will likely be the LONGEST day of our trip out west we accomplished driving almost 700 miles today - wow! Started out in Oklahoma City, then as we hit the Texas border I was promptly greeted with a tumbleweed. Nice. Drove across the Panhandle (B-O-R-I-N-G). Even Amarillo has nothing. I thought Oklahoma was flat but oh no, the Texas Panhandle wins.

I was so excited to see New Mexico. Mountains! Mesas! Red rock! Trees! New Mexico is very scenic. Albuquerque is pretty cool. It's a city that's settled right in the middle of the mountains. So pretty much anywhere you look, there they are. I can't help it though, every time I think of Albuquerque I hear Bugs Bunny saying "I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque." Ah, childhood.

We decided to continue on and are spending tonight in Gallup. So we're about 20 miles from the Arizona border! Tomorrow I think we're going to take a detour to see the Grand Canyon. It means we won't likely get to my apartment in California until Wednesday, but since it's ready and waiting for us why not take the detour, right? Who knows when I'll have the chance to see the Canyon in person again, maybe never. The cat would probably prefer to get to the apartment ASAP so he doesn't have to travel in his carrier anymore, but well, he'll deal. He's been SO great so far so I know he's going to be fine.

That's the scoop on Day 2, going to head out and find a place to grab some dinner. I'm so glad we decided to make the drive ourselves, I'm really enjoying spending the time with my dad and also seeing so much of the country during the drive. It is truly amazing to see how the landscape changes, especially once you start seeing mountains and so forth.

Can't wait to see what it'll be like driving through the desert - yup, Mojave Desert is on the route to LA so we'll see that too.