We finally got on our flight to Denver on Wed and then on to Atlanta. Since we didn't have enough time to drive to Savannah to visit Brandee, she brought her kids up to see us in Atlanta. It was so nice to see them again, they are getting BIG! and to meet Isaac for the first time. Brandee has always been a sweet girl and she is a sweet, lovely woman and mother. Wish we didn't live so darn far apart...
We left Georgia on Friday and drove to Mississippi that day. We did a bit of shopping there and stayed the night. On Saturday we drove to Oklahoma City and decided to stop there since there was a big storm brewing to the west. It came through in the night and it was a bit strange to be warned about what to do in the case of a tornado. In fact, as we watched TV that night in our 3rd floor hotel room, we watched a show on the weather channel that highlighted a tornado that had gone through a town just SW of OK City a couple of years before. Yikes! On Sunday we drove from OK City to home. It was our longest driving day but we needed to just get home.
It was interesting to watch the change in the land and trees as we drove west. It is so green and wet in the east. I love the look of it, but I think I'd go nuts living there, never being able to see very far. Being a Western girl, I like to SEE distances. I think my favorite place was Western Arkansas and Eastern OK. It was still very green, but not so many trees so close together. Lots of cows in lush green fields and there was usually an oil pump or two in the field as well!
New Mexico was my least favorite part of the drive. So much sand and rock. So desolate, particularly once we got past Albuquerque. We stayed on the interstate until Gallup. I hadn't ever been to Gallup before so I can check that off my bucket list. Haha!
As we drove north from Gallup to Shiprock, we got to drive through a small sandstorm. It was very strange to be swallowed up in a swirl of sand, but it made me realize you could easily be lost in one. It was hard to see if anyone was in front of us and I was glad no one hit us from behind if we slowed down.
I was never so happy as to see the Abajo Mts. in the distance as we drove from Cortez toward home. I love to travel and see new places but I love where we live and was happy to be home.
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| finally in the air...flying over the Rockies to Denver |
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| Brandee and Curtis having a deep discussion |
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| Alabama...rain and green trees |
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| Piggly Wiggly- what a name for a grocery store! |
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| my chauffeur...driving in the comfort of our new (to us) car |
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| the console-check it out! seat heaters!!!! Oh, happy day! |
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| Mississippi...more green trees |
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| an outside shot of the new wheels. Pretty sporty for us! |
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| crossing the Mississippi River and heading into Arkansas... |
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| Such a HUGE river... |
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| Tornado damage in Arkansas. It was amazing to see trees that looked like matchsticks. All their peripheral branches were ripped off. Buildings were just piles of rubble...I was really glad we weren't driving through when it hit! |
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| More damaged trees and buildings... |
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| How do people recover from this? It happens so often there... |
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| Had to stop and eat at Popeye's for Ford. He liked eating there while he was in Basic at Fort Jackson in SC |
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| Nicest hotel we stayed in in Oklahoma City. |
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| It had a separate sitting/TV area. We felt right uptown there. Curtis even ordered Room Service food... |
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| We thought it was pretty cool to stay here, since it shares a name with our oldest daughter... |
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| I forgot to get Oklahoma, but here's Texas.... |
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| New Mexico's sign was the most impressive....notice the lack of green trees.... |
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stopped at a truck stop for a stretch and drink..
watched these swallows flying around, in and out of their mud nests in the corner... |
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| Lots of sand blowing across the road |
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| I mean, lots of sand... |
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| we wondered what our paint would look like when we got home... |
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| I've never been in a sand-storm before... |
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| Ah, there are the Blues! Home sweet home! |
Good Things:
generous parents who gave us their car
nice roads to drive on
air-conditioning
awesome kids who took good care of each other and the house
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