Day 9, May 11, 2009

I probably should have hit the road when I woke up in Albuquerque at 2:00a, but I managed to get back to sleep through all of the wind and woke up around 6:00a. I had about an 11 or 12 hour drive to Dallas. Packing up was no fun because as soon as I took my air matress out of the tent, the wind blew it down the street. That'll wake you up. I finally got packed up and took a shower in the KOA facility. After the shower, I walked out to the truck to leave and noticed the wind had completely stopped. Weird! It did finally look like rain as I drove out of Albuquerque.






After a quick (kinda) Dairy Queen breakfast at the Flying C Ranch gas station and tourist trap, I was back to falling asleep at the wheel... No wait! I drove good. I did pick up some rocks for Keely and Emma at Flying C. They love the fools gold and magnetic rocks. I'm still kicking myself for not buying some fireworks. They had some GOOOOD s*** there.

Since the ride through northwest Texas felt like forever the other day, I decided to stay on I-40 when I got to Amarillo. About 3 hours later I was in Oklahoma City, OK. It looked like it could storm at any minute, and all of the storm chasers in their fancy convoys of black SUV's with all of the weather instruments started to creep me out. One tornado per trip is enough for me (see day one). Three hours south of Oklahoma City and I was back in a stormy Dallas, Texas. I set up camp inside the La Quinta just off I-20. Got to bed early, but ended up sleeping later than expected.

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