Monday, January 29, 2007

Icicle Desert

That morning (Sat 1/20/07) we were trying to plan our next move over the hotel breakfast, which actually included waffles. A fellow traveler overheard us and shared her story of getting stuck at a gas station for several hours a ways down the road, then following a snowplow into town. She was convinced everything would melt by noon and that we should try going back through the mountains and continue on our original route. Petra and I were very worried about getting stuck somewhere and the roads and forecast did NOT look good north of us. We decided, reluctantly, to turn around and head back west and scrap our entire well-planned itinerary. This lady was very excited for us and STRONGLY encouraged us not to give up! When we pulled over to take this picture below she happened to be behind us and was sure we were having car trouble. We were just glad she wasn't on our road trip with us as I'm sure we would not have gotten a word in edge-wise!
We stopped at a rest area and in the time we were there the clouds lifted and the sun came out! This first picture was right after we stopped, you couldn't even see the mountains across the way!
This was farther up the road with blue sky!

2 comments:

Nichole said...

You know I just remembered that the last time Micahel and I drove from Lubbock to El Paso we went this same route (through Van Horn) and it was in the snow too.... I had forgotten.

I LOVE the picture with the "Desert" sign in the snow. funny. I'm also glad that the lady wasn't on the trip with you, she would have controlled the whole trip it sounds like!

Michelle said...

It was so beautiful to see the sun finally come out.

Nichole, I really think she wanted to join us! crazy!