The Escape
One could call it that, at least it felt like it.
Yesterday evening we were full of questions about just how long we would have to wait for better travel weather. The wind was having a good time with the tie-down of our solar panels, but we were tired enough to ignore the noise.
This morning it felt like a bad winter day, hardly any discernable day light, when I glanced out the window. Rain coming down on the roof. I checked the weather forecast. It looked gloomy. Snow across the mountains, but not much wind.
We talked it over and I think it was Bea saying: "Ok, let's go".
So we had a quick breakfast and got packing. Before I had the last jacks up, I was drenched.
A short stop at the local gas station and away we went onto the I-10.
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| It's getting dicey |
It didn't take long until we were driving in snow. But luck would have it that 2 semis were "plowing" the right lane for the following traffic, so we kinda hung on to them. The highest point turned out to be 4500ft.
As we proceeded towards Van Horn the snow turned into rain, even though some still came down as sleet. But we had gotten across the worst part of the summit.
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| Cars and trucks waiting at a Border Patrol Check Point |
It continued raining almost all the way into El Paso, where suddenly the sun popped out.
Another hour up the I-10 and we were approaching Las Cruces. Looking east we saw snow covered mountain tops. But the I-10 turns west and towards Deming and Lordsburg. By then we had a blue sky and a bright sun.
We felt so happy, we could have started singing. The landscape was so familiar, how many times had we driven along here?
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| The "not-so-grand" RIO GRANDE at Las Cruces |
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| The San Andres Mountains at Las Cruces |
Even Dixie must have noticed that mom and dad were more happy, at least she went all tail wagging along the rest area.
We made a couple of phone calls to dear neighbours at home, letting them know about the good outcome of our latest road adventure.
CONGRATS on weathering the storm! ;-)
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