Wide Open Spaces [Pt 2]

1:30pm~Texas Time (11:30 AZ time) August 31, 2007

Driving Across the Texas Panhandle

I think that Texas people are uhh…grumpy. So we are driving across the Texas Panhandle right now. We left Tucumcari, NM around 10:00am (New Mexico time, so 9:00 AZ time). Texas, at least this part, is interesting. There are loonnnggg spans of grass to our left and right, and you can see where the vast blue sky dotted with puffy white clouds meets the open plains. The rolling sea of green is speckled with black and brown cows. EVERYWHERE. It’s actually really cool! You just see them grazing lazily acting like they own the place. (They probably do).

Anyway, we stopped in Groom, Texas. (AKA, middle of nowhere) We ate lunch at a DQ where three ladies well into or past their 60s served us. It was a little community diner, but I don’t know where the community lives because there are hardly any houses. (maybe they are invisible or underground or something) It was cute and all, but the ladies were grumpy and either didn’t like us (because we didn’t have accents and we probably acted like we were from the ‘upscale’ west…maybe they have a grudge on us or something, I don’t know. Do we even act a certain way?) Or maybe they just didn’t want to work in the middle of nowhere with each other. In conclusion, they weren’t very happy or anything…so we didn’t get the best impression of them.

Last night we got into Tucumcari about 1:30am (their time...12:30am AZ time) and it took us awhile to get to sleep. Of course, I got the privilege to sleep on the super uncomfortable sleeper-sofa. It was bad, and I was really sad about it. Mostly because I couldn’t necessarily sleep on the thing…it was a bummer. But, now I’m tired, and there is really nothing to do in the car with two people sleeping, not the best music playing, and no internet. So, I’ll probably sleep. But first I’m gonna read the rest of the selection from my biology book, and the probably my art book too. I’m way behind in those two, and I think that there are due dates with the school, but I don’t really know. Better to be safe than sorry.

<3!

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