And all the dried chilis!
We took the back roads, of course... And found this beauty.... along with tons of cyclists, Thoroughbred and Arabian stables, and even people playing Polo! That's right! Polo... On horses! I've never seen it in person before! New Mexico - I misjudged you...
But like all good things.... they come to an end.... Now I have absolutely nothing against Texas but you have to admit -- it's dry, hot, and rather void of green landscape.... Almost the second we passed the state line and got off the backroad onto the highway the landscape changed from pretty tree-lined country road to... dry emptiness.... But with lots of BBQ! :)
Eric had to have a picture of the Mexico border at Juarez.
TONS of border patrol as soon as we hit Arizona. We even had to go through an inspection point.
Some of us got to sleep through it....
We had to take a picture with the giant roadrunner from our Roadside Attractions coffee table book.
Fort Stockton welcomed us with 102 degree weather. So of course we chose to eat at Sonic where we had to sit outside... And of course Isabella decided it was the perfect conditions to refuse to sit anywhere but on her daddy's lap.
yeah.... this is her mischievious look....
And this is where we SHOULD have ended our day... But no.... at 6:00 we though, "Hey! There isn't a whole lot in Fort Stockton... let's just go on to Del Rio! We'll be there at 8:00 at the latest!" Yeah.... Bad idea.... While driving the completely EMPTY road from Fort Stockton to Del Rio we:
1. Got pulled over for speeding through a "town". And I say it like that because you literally look left and right and the town is over.... But the sherriff did not care for our California plates... at least that's what we figure since he didn't even blink at the other cars speeding through his town in the 20 minutes he had us on the side of the road... in the 102 degree heat... with a toddler and 2 senior citizens...
2. Clothes started flying out of our stupid roof top cargo bag... the bag that bragged of a zipper closure but in reality came with a velcro closure.... We had to try to fix everything on the side of the highway... in 102 degree heat... with thistles stinging our ankles... with a toddler and 2 seniors in the car.... *No clothes were lost! Yay!
3. Stupid Nissan puts a lovely built-in cargo thingy on the top of the Xterra.... unfortunately said built-in cargo thingy sucks and broke while driving.... I just LOVE seeing all of our swim suits (or swim swims as Izzy calls them) flying out in my rear view mirror.... We only found Eric's suit... Isabella and I have to buy new "swim swims".... :(
4. We got to Del Rio! Wahoo! At 9:45.... so much for 8:00!
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