Day 1 recap

This morning we find ourselves watching the Fairy Odd Parents in a hotel room in Carlsbad, NM.

Yesterday was a pretty successful 8 hours-in-the-car day.

We started with a sad goodbye to Ryan. He's sad he doesn't get to come with us and that he's going to be alone for 3 weeks without us.
He helped me write on the car windows... we are crossing the country telling fellow travelers "CANADA! Fleeing Heat + Zombies".

We got out and walked around in Fredricksburg. The kids spotted a candy store, so we stopped for some morning ring pops and blow pops.

After some Pokemon movies and a quick McDonald's for lunch we made good time on I-10. The landscape was quite pretty with the mesas and scrub. I was quite excited to see the wind turbines on the mesas. They are really impressive!

In the afternoon we drove into Fort Stockton and detoured into town to see Paisano Pete, the giant Roadrunner statue. Joe and Pete's elementary school's mascot is the Roadrunner, so I took lots of pics of them in front of it.

The last part of the trip was on state highway 285 north towards New Mexico. The landscape there was much more boring and flat. Pete decided to watch Mamma Mia and listened to it without the headphones so I could enjoy the show!

We got here around 5pm (mountain) and went for a quick swim at the motel's pool. It's an indoor pool that was hotter in the building than the outdoors (and it's over 100 degrees!), so I didn't feel like staying long.

Today we have a tour of the Caverns then we are driving to Albuquerque.