Tuesday, February 1, 2011



The Open Road!

..or not if there's rain and sleet and ice and snow.


So far we've managed to stay ahead of the storm by driving two and a half very long days, leaving Providence mid-day on Saturday and getting
to Austin, TX. late Monday night.



Tulip's been a model traveler, curled up in a small space in the back seat of
the Prius for long hours--and adapting quite rapidly to various motel rooms, quite liking the smells in these dog motels.





Today we had a leisurely and lovely drive from Austin towards southwest Texas over Rte. 290--now maybe my favorite road: lovely live oaks, many peach stands, closed for the winter of course, and pecan stands, also closed, and small and large ranches and horses and no billboards and hardly any trucks or other cars. Plus, occasional sunshine--first since Providence. We played David's cd mix of western songs, his "Tumbleweeds" tape and thought about him and Rachel too traveling that road back and forth between Austin and Silver City, New Mexico.




Toby found sun-bleached cattle bones along the side of the road (now in our trunk)




and looked kind of western in his hat. We're so glad we brought along our down parkas as it's been very cold and very, very, very windy.




So windy that the baseboard air conditioning/heating unit in our motel room in Austin was blown free from the wall. A screeching wind and a huge thump and curtains billowing wildly in the wind! So windy half this sign was blown out making it difficult to find our motel in Sonora, TX.

We're on our way to El Paso and beyond tomorrow, although they say it'll snow here tonight and maybe parts of Rte. 10 will be closed. Yikes!

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