Roads

We have now arrived in Santa Fe, New Mexico. First thing that is different is that it is so much cooler here - "only" about 30 degrees (Celsius, obviously), rather than the 37 plus that we had grown accustomed to in Texas and Southern New Mexico. From what we have seen so far, Santa Fe is a lovely place with beautiful buildings and lot of cute little shops. We will stay here three nights and will post in the next few days about our adventures.

We have now travelled 1,000 miles. Before we left, a number of people told us that most of the route, especially the part that we have traveled now, would be very boring. Well - I would like to invite those people to come to the Netherlands and drive through Flevoland to learn what boring is. The roads that we have traveled on have been beautiful: from the amazingly green hills in south and west Texas, to the purple and red desert in New Mexico and the smalltown/ghost town American just-like-on-tv cities in between. Like most travelers, we drive an SUV: a Jeep, conveniently addressed by its model name (Patriot, just like the missile) by Texas valet parkers.

We have seen many different people: families on vacation, truck drivers. And things you don't see everyday in other parts of the world, such as the middle-aged couple on an after dinner stroll with the man carrying a gun out in the open. And we have had every type of food: from McDonalds (great free wifi!), to upscale tex mex and homemade paté, with drinks with way too many icecubes and, of course, straws. And we're not even halfway!

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