Sunday
December 21, 2008
10:44 AM = Left motel comfortably after good breakfast
927.9 trip miles
19014 total
33 F
90% Oil Life
55% Fuel
The Beatles on CD -- "The Long and Winding Road"
I wanna go to a place I haven't been since February 1994.....
It's a beautiful day
11:07/949.1 = Petrified Forest National Park
1:33/983.7 = Exited park... nice just the way I remember it!
1:35/984.5 = On other roadtrips I'd be heading home about now, but this one isn't like other roadtrips! Entered good ole I-40 East!
And it's still a beautiful day -- although snow is predicted for tomorrow. By tomorrow I'll pro'lly be in texas!
1:47 PM = The first of many: 1,000 trip miles (near mile 327.5)
2:11/1031.8 = Entered The Land Of Enchantment -- and there's snow all around from day before yesterday
"My" rest area from January 1994 was closed :-(
2:24/1047.8 = Took x16 in Gallup
$25.01 = 13.524 Gallons. 1050.7 miles
couple of bucks for Taco Bell lunch, then on the road again at 2:53/1057.0.
4:33 PM/1182.8 = I-40 in Albuquerque is under construction AGAIN.... wonder how many decades it'll last this time!
Is today gonna be my last day on I-40 this year?
4:41/1191.5 = Took I-40x159B for I-25 South. "So long I-40 ... See ya next year, ... or this year"
6:34/1337.3 = Took x79 in Truth or Consequences
Checked in at Comfort Suites
Another $9 bucks for another dinner at Denny's
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