Day Seventeen: Albuquerque to Austin

The best way to sum up Day 17 is to say that we spent the whole day driving from Albuquerque to Austin. On the way, a New Mexico convenience store exhorted us to join in their campaign against warm bed covers:

The drive lasted all day and well into the night. We messed around for a moment with Oklahoma, but, while in Texas, we refrained.

Very late on Thursday night we arrived at Damian and Amanda’s abode (Zach’s cousins). They were quite generous right off the bat, first staying up to greet us at our unfriendly-to-the-workaday-world arrival time and then offering their beautiful house for a second night even though they would be out of town.

Comfortably, we settled in for a couple of days in the Lone Star State.