First Round of Pictures

Finally I am posting some pictures of our travels so far. I don't have time to write up a whole lot since we are eager to get on the road and get to the Grand Canyon (where I just found it is only going to be 60 degrees, and will get down to 37 tonight at the North Rim, where we are camping tonight...good thing we bought those new low-temperature sleeping bags!)

Here we are ready to depart our house in our Subaru Forester on Friday night:


Driving across the Mississippi River:

(that's the Mississippi River over Jessie's shoulder)

Saw some Arkansas locals on the Interstate:


(actually I think that might be a North Carolina license plate, but I thought it was a crazy vehicle!)

Then we hit Texas:

Made a pit stop at Gilley's in Dallas, which is where they filmed the movie "Urban Cowboy." Jessie wanted to go ride the mechanical bull (it's not the one John Travolta rode in the movie) and get a picture of the mechanical bull from the movie (which is on display inside, apparently), but it was Saturday night and there was some kind of concert going on there, and they wouldn't let us park for free so we could run inside. We decided it wasn't worth $10 to park for 15 minutes so we snapped a picture and headed on to Fort Worth (where we stopped for some awesome barbeque at Angelo's).


On Sunday morning we woke up and realized we were in wind turbine country:

We kept driving across Texas to New Mexico:

Then we arrived at Carlsbad Caverns (technically it was Whites City, NM) where we setup camp in the 100 degree heat:

And Jessie couldn't resist the urge:

Then we went up to Carlsbad Caverns National Park to check out some scenery and the visitors center:




That's all for now, we need to get on the road. More to come.