It Is Raining

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Travel day and we slept in until 6:00AM and when we got up it was raining. Tom finished getting us ready to leave between really hard rains when it was only a steady downpour. Hooking the Jeep up was fun. Lets just say we got wet. We finally pulled back onto I-40 heading west around 9:30AM leaving Sayre behind. It was still raining.

The highway ahead rain fog and a general grey day.

I finally got two pictures of windmills today. They may be through a rain
covered windshield and a side window with reflections but I got them.
I do love seeing the windmills.

We are in Texas. I missed the sign. I did catch the Big Texan through
the rain covered window.

What I did miss was the Leaning Water Tower. It was that foggy and I never saw it.

Did I mention it was foggy?
These wind turbines have no heads.

Then all of a sudden as we were going through Amarillo it was like
someone turned on a light and we could see blue sky.

Then we were west of Amarillo and could see the Cadillacs on our left.

After we stopped at a picnic area just past Vega, TX the sky started to look
pretty dark and not long after this picture we were in a hail storm.

The road was covered in hail  and I did not think to take a picture. When the first one hit I thought the truck passing us had thrown up a rock. They were good size hail stones. 

We have made it to New Mexico.

Our stop for the day.

We are in Tucumcari, NM at the Blaze In Saddle RV Park. I read on the Passport America that three brothers bought this place about 8 months ago and have been fixing it up ever since. You can see all their hard work and it is still a work in progress. I saw one of the owners busy fixing something at one of the sites while Tom went in and registered. It is a clean park and the sites all look pretty level. We were chatting with one of the owners after he brought us to our site, it was the first time we ever followed someone riding a bike, and he was saying they have done a lot but there is still a lot to do.
Interesting side note: When Tom went in to register one of the owners was wearing a Navy hat and Tom mentioned he was in the Navy, also. I was out in the Stinger "B" during this time wondering what had happened to him. Ends up they were in a lot of the same places at the same time so they were comparing notes.

They even gave us a treat.

So ended our day and when we went to bed we could hear the rain on the roof.

Hope you had a good day.

We are glad you stopped by. 

One small addition: It is Thursday, December 27th, what we hope will be another travel day, we were up at 5:00AM to very wet snow on the ground. We will be waiting until sunrise at 7:02 to decide what to do today. Checking ahead to Santa Rosa, where we turn off of I-40 and work our way to I-25 heading south, it says they have snow, also. According to the weather app they are going to get hit with 1 to 3 inches between tonight and tomorrow so we are hoping this dries up enough so we can get out of here this morning. It is turning into an interesting year. I guess the above quote I chose for to the blog last night was appropriate.