Get your kicks on Route 66!!!

After leaving Sedona, we set out on I-40 across Arizona and into New Mexico. If you don't know, I-40 is Route 66! Well it is most of the time. Occasionally the "Historic Route 66" breaks off from I-40, where it becomes a narrow, 2-way road winding through the desertscape. I couldn't help singing that famous song as we passed through "Gallup, New Mexico!"

Unfortunately, I developed a splitting headache this day and was unable to take my shift driving. So, we stopped off early in a scary little town on the eastern outskirts of Albuquerque called Moriarty.

Saturday we got up early to see a menacing wall of black thunder storms racing our way. So, with that threat of imminent doom looming at us, we got our butts in gear and on the road. We were able to outrun the storm most of the way through New Mexico and Texas, but it caught us in Amarillo when we were forced to refuel. Man, can it rain in Texas! We outran the storm again, and it was gorgeous sunny weather all the way until we hit Dallas, where a massive traffic jam brought us to a complete stop on the freeway. Luckily, Dallas is full of beautiful and unusual skyscrapers to look at. We made it through Dallas just as the giant raindrops started coming down and with the lightning flashing in the rearview mirror headed for Louisiana.