Miles and Miles of Miles and Miles

Oil pumper seen throughout West Texas
Photos by The Zimmers

Mesmerizing scenery on
Interstate 10, West Texas

ON THE ROAD AGAIN ...Nothing to report exciting these last two days. A lot of windshield time.

We left Baton Rouge on Tuesday morning, July 26,  and continued our drive on interstate 10 to visit my sister in the Lake  Travis Texas, area. Nothing exciting to report during our Tuesday drive other then the 105 degree heat starting in Houston to Lake Travis. By the way, the Austin area is booming in residential construction.

Lots of windshield time makes you think -- like Interstate 10 runs coast to coast from Jacksonville, Florida to Los Angeles. A pretty impressive construction feat. Especially the interstate section over an extended swamp area of Louisiana called the Achafalaya Swamp Freeway. Also, as I planned our trip, it dawned on me the first three nights I-10 would take us to three state capitols; Tallahassee (Florida), Baton Rouge (Louisiana) and close to Austin (Texas)..

On Wednesday, as we left my sister's house early at 6:30 am, we traveled back to I-10 on Route 280 through Johnson City, TX, the hometown of President Lyndon Johnson,  and through Fredericksburg, TX, a cute town  of German heritage and worth the visit. Along this route there are too many wineries to list. Ann now has this are on a “To be returned” list so we can visit the wineries and Fredericksburg.

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Street corner art in Pecos, NM

​Once leaving Fredericksburg, your drive time scenery doesn’t change as some of my photographs show. Hours upon hours of the same scenery which becomes mesmerizing and hallucinating. With the new Lane Assist system on new cars, you can actually take short naps on drives such as I-10 in West Texas. I came out of one of my hallucinating naps hearing my voice saying out loud, “Can I ride the pony Mommy? Can I?” (For the record this is all false).

By 5pm, we arrived in Carlsbad, NM for the evening. Convenient location for our visit tomorrow to Carlsbad Caverns Park, a 30-minute car ride away. More on this tomorrow. --MARTY

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