Day Three

Having gotten our first hotel last night we got a late start this morning. Something about having a nice bed made it a little difficult to get back in the truck. So we have so far made it across the rest of Arkansas through Texas and are going through New Mexico now. Arkansas was not one of ma favorite states. It just didn't have much in the way of scenery. That made it a very flat boring drive that I thought would never end. Texas has been my favorite so far.

It still took a while to get through the state but we cut across the top section so it wasn't as long as it could've been. They also had the nicest rest areas and views so far. We stopped at the rest area at the second largest canyon in the nation.

This is a picture of the second largest canyon, that I don't remember the name of at the moment. It was a pretty view at the first rest stop and information center that we came to in Texas. It was a very interesting center that looked like it had been cut out of a hill.

There are also a lot of animals in Texas. We passed a cattle ranch or processing center, I'm not really sure what it was, but it was A LOT of cows. We also saw a coyote, horses, and some sort of deer or antelope mix, I'm not sure what it was. They also had wind mill farms that filled the horizon at one point and several dust storms.

New Mexico has also been a pretty ride. It's not my favorite state, as I don't think they believe in rest areas or gas stations, but it's a pretty state. We had our first experience with almost running out of gas after coming into New Mexico. It took an 1 1/2 to find a gas station during that time the gas needle stopped dropping, it got as low as it would go. New Mexico also held our first for a flat tire. A car waved us down about an hour outside of Albuquerque that something was wrong as they passed us we noticed sparks in our rear view mirror. The back tire on the car hauler was completely shredded with only a strip in the center holding on. Uhual arranged for someone to come from Albuquerque to change it. It took them an 1 1/2 to get to us and 5mins to change the tire.

We are now an 1 1/2 from Arizona and 2 1/2 hours behind where we wanted to be. But we have a new tire and will hopefully make Vegas by lunch time tomorrow.