06 August 2017
After arriving in Las Cruces we had dinner at my favorite place, Nopalitos, which has great green chile and is situated in an old church. When we came back to the house the dogs had jumped the wall and were in the neighbors yard, which fortunately no one had noticed yet. We got to sleep and then we were back at it in the morning. I had almost an hour head start since we had a full day of driving scheduled.
I hadn't made any long distance car trips east of El Paso since I was a kid, so much of this was new. El Paso roads were kind of a mess with construction, and I found myself in the wrong lane before the road split. I made it across, but almost without the trailer. It took a few wiggles before we were back on the same frequency. A little too exciting.
After that there was a whole lot of boring. I had heard a lot about driving across west Texas and it was true, except we were crossing after some significant rain and everything was supposedly much greener than normal. Sure. Really boring interspersed with some seriously ugly landscape. At least the Land Cruiser was doing well, especially since it was 22 years old with well over 200k miles on it. Other than having to down shift a few times on bigger hills it kept on trucking at or near the speed limit.
We spent the night in the middle of nowhere known locally as Sonora. It took a while to drag the pet crates up to Chelsea's second story room while mosquitos drained us.
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The adventures of Dan and Heather as they travel on their sailboat, "Hiatus".
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