Happy 2020 everyone! It is Wednesday, January 1st and we have over 2,000 miles to travel before we make it to our hometown. We are on our way home to Rochester, NY with a few short stops to explore the areas that we travel through.
Our first stop was going to be Blue Lake State Park in New Mexico. However, the weather was not cooperative. At about 9:30 am in the morning, we left Gallop, New Mexico, but were distressed to learn that the temperature was windy and only 9-degrees, much too cold to do any hiking.
So we gave up on the idea of hiking and exploring, and continued on our way East instead on Route 40. We passed through the city of Albuquerque around noon so we stopped for lunch to rest a bit before moving on. We had lunch at a Subway, right in front of the Albuquerque Fire Department.
We drove over 300+ miles that first day, nearly four hours to Tucumcari, New Mexico (pronounced To-come-Cary) where we spent the night.
The next day, Thursday, Jan. 2nd we drove another 300+ miles through New Mexico to Texas where we found a fantastic town called Groom. There we found a wonderful park that had a monster cross at the edge of town and fourteen statues depicting the fourteen stations of the cross beautifully rendered in life-size statues.
To view more of what we saw but didn't have the time to photograph, go to "A Town Called Groom" on the internet. The cross alone is nineteen stories tall and can be seen from 20 miles away.
We continued through northern Texas and on into Oklahoma to Weatherford, OK where we spent the night. On the way, Dad and Mom stopped so I could have a nice walk along historic Route 66, the 2448-mile legendary road that crossed the nation from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, portions of which still exist.
On Friday, Jan. 3rd we drove another 300+ miles through Oklahoma and on to Fort Smith, Arkansas where we spent the night.
Tomorrow we will be going to Hot Springs National Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas😀.
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