November 8, 2008 - Saturday
We asked "Leila" the quickest way to get from Carlsbad, NM, to Dallas, TX, and she lead us across State Road 180 rather than down to I-20. It made for a more-interesting drive - hitting little towns along the way and *was* probably faster since most of it was 2-lane, but 70MPH. Both Kathy and I *did* get our chance to get annoyed at how little towns seem to feel *obligated* to slow you down thru town. Hey. It's a 70MPH road. Deal with it instead of stepping you down from 70 - to 60 - to 55 - to... all the way down to 30MPH - then back up.
But we had a nice drive and Kathy drove some to give me time to get onto the computer to get the write-up done for "Antelope Canyon" - from October 18 - so I'll post that next.
We crossed from New Mexico back into Texas and, simultaneously, into Central Time - so we're back to being only one timezone away from Florida. We also passed miles and miles of fields of *cotton* all puffy and ready for harvest. It was cool to see "escaped" cotton lining the roads in some places - a white puffy "border" to the highway.
We also watched the price of gas continue to fall as we got into the heart of oil country, but I think it's more just that the price of oil is finally falling back to true "market" price - rather than what the speculators and gougers bid it up to. (Yeah... that was "political commentary"). But we left Carlsbad, NM with $2.29/gallon gas - and eventually saw it for $1.97/gallon in Texas - yes back under $2/gallon. To me, that shows how much B.S. it was when we were told that $4/gal was just caused by lack of refinery capacity and such. I hope that some "investors" who bid the prices up to $160/barrel - are happy *eating* their oil - now that the price of gas is literally *half* what it was when we left home 6 weeks ago. Yeah. How about that? We've been on the road for 6 weeks as of Thursday. And we still don't *miss* anything about home, though we're starting to make a list of "things we should do when we *do* finally get back home."
Anyway. We safely made it to our hotel near the Dallas airport, got checked in, then called Kathy's cousin Ken to ask for a recommendation for a *good* Dallas steak. He directed us to "The Keg" - only about 4 miles away - and it was, indeed, a very-memorable meal: Prime Rib for me, Steak Oscar for Kathy: excellent, seasoned very well - a wonderful romantic dinner for the 2 of us.
And we're only about 1000 miles from home now. 8626 miles total so far - a big driving day for us today.
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