Along the LONG ROAD

(2018 Alaska Ep 10)

We’ve driven nearly 5000 miles and have many to go before we reach Alaska.

Overall, the roads and related traffic have been good.  The scenery has been outstanding.  Construction has been infrequent for very short distances.

There are always interesting things to see along the road.  Like a sign in Oklahoma Hitchhikers Could be Inmates, or the town of No Name near Glenwood Springs, Colorado.  Here are some more:

On an Interstate highway near Dallas, a rest area had silos for men’s and women’s bathrooms.  I wonder what the windmill was for?

For you country music fans, we passed by Luckenbach, Texas, made famous by the late Waylon Jennings (click to hear).  Ain’t nuthin much in the area, except a couple sound stages, a gift shop and lots of laid back country attitude.  Closest decent-sized town is Fredericksburg, Texas, about 15 miles away.

Here is the world’s largest pistachio nut.  There are numerous groves of pistachio and pecan trees in the New Mexico desert north of White Sands/Alamogordo.

We saw a jackelope (mythical jackrabbit with antelope horns) at a roadside stand in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Finally, we camped near a turtle-shaped rock in the Colorado mountains near Buena Vista, Colorado.  It was a beautiful vista indeed!