Best of the Pecos

We drove 260 miles in 8 hours yesterday. Started in Abilene and ended in Pecos, TX. The roads were horrible in the morning, as they still had a lot of ice on them. So it took us 3 hours to drive the first 30 miles. It's good we took it slow, though, because we drove past quite a number of trucks and cars that had slid off the road and rolled over. We saw at least 12 rolled-over semis. We also saw an RV that had rolled over, which broke off its back wall and poured a couch and a bunch of random junk onto the side of the road. It reminded me of the time I came across an SUV rolled over, sitting upside down on Hyde Park Blvd. in Chicago. No one was around. When I looked inside I saw all the random junk that normally fills the center console and door pockets of our cars, but it was lying on the upside down roof of this SUV.

We're now listening to David McCulloch's biography of Harry Truman. Truman sounds like a truly great man.

Nothing else happened yesterday. We drove by a bunch of oil refineries, and a lot of uninhabited wasteland. I'm looking forward to New Mexico.