Dallas to New Mexico.

It was a pretty straight drive today, mostly across Texas on #82. The country was interesting, but there was a lot of it! We stopped in Haskell TX for fuel and also got 2 takeout fajitas for $5, very tasty.

Lots of cotton fields (mostly harvested), with cotton bolls along the road.

The steer below was a huge model made of plate steel welded together. This type of thing is getting common along the way. Borrego Springs, a place in California we hope to get to, has some amazing examples of this type of art.

The terrain crept up to higher elevations, but flat. We could see for miles - hundreds of Sandhill Cranes near Brownfield TX; a large mule deer stag with a huge set of antlers, in a group of 20 or more deer.

We didn't fully escape the weather bomb. It was mostly cloudy with rain off and on today. As we came into New Mexico the temp dropped down to +2C, and we were inundated with wet icy snow lumps. It didn't last long though. We camped for the night at the Bottomless Lakes State Park, just southeast of Roswell. We'll be watching for aliens tonight!

We've been getting amazing Internet access from the little device we bought at Walmart in Indiana. It connects to the Verizon cell network (?), and we then connect to the device with our computer and/or phones via their builtin WiFi. We're getting good Internet out here in the NM desert, 10 km from even the secondary road we've been on today, surrounded by hills. Amazing! It's kind of like a pay-as-you-go phone, in that you buy a card for the Gigabytes you want, and they expire once used up or at the end of a 30 or 60 day period.

New Mexico State Parks are among the cheapest State Parks. This one was just $14 for the night, with electric, water, showers and great scenery. We’d like to come back here when it’s just a bit warmer.