Finally, out of Texas! And we went across the skinnier part!
About 30 minutes outside of Amarillo, where we spent the night, we went through Dumbass, TX...er, Dumass, where we tried once again to no avail to obtain an ear ornament for Mr. Pasley. Too bad, too, I was so looking forward to making THAT video! We made it through the rest of Texas, a piece of Oklahoma, and the northeastern part of New Mexico without incident, mostly because there wasn't anything around to create an incident out of. Talk about the middle of frickin' nowhere. I was rather excited, however, when we stopped in Raton, NM and discovered the Robin Hood Motel. For those not in the loop, Robin Hood is my radio handle whenever we break out our Motorola Talkabouts.
Driving through Colorado was much more exciting. We kept an eye on a thunderstorm unfolding all around us and entertaining us with periodic flashes of lightning--most impressive against the mountain skyline. We also ran into a few of our not so intelligent friends along the way. This was one of the more...traumatic encounters. After we arrived at our Colorado Springs destination (home of my mom's long-time friend Michelle), we were treated to more impressive eye candy at the Garden of the Gods, a group of rock formations created during the Ice Age. If you ever get a chance to see the Garden, dusk is a great time to view it as the Colorado sky seems to have an endless supply of impressive evening cloud formations. But bring a block of wood or something, these things get heavy after awhile.
One of the more scenic states along our trip, you see all kinds of things in Colorado, even young Harry Potter fans with birds on their shoulders. Hearing this bird talk, I think it was doing just as much reading as our friend Brittany.
