Day One

Well I got started this morning shortly after 6:00 am. I put on all my warm clothes and plugged in my heated jacket liner. It felt good when going through Flagstaff at 32 deg. After dropping some altitude, on the East side of the state, it warmed up to a balmy 50 deg. By the time I stopped for a nutritious lunch in Albuquerque, at Wendy's, it was in the high 70s. A few gas stops later I was able to turn off I-40 at Tucumcari, NM and start angling NE on highway 54.

Just outside of Dalhart, TX are a couple huge cattle feed lots. I don't think I would be exaggerating by estimating that there are upwards of a million cows in these lots. They have to be 1/2 mile square and filled with beef on the hoof.

I'm bunking down in a Super 8 motel in Dalhart which should be my only stay in a motel on this trip.

It's on to Kansas City tomorrow with a stop in Medicine lodge, KS. More on that in the next post.

Wendy's for lunch

If only you could smell what I did. I should have taken a panoramic picture.