The First Trip pt. 2

This was a looooooong day. Left Albuquerque in the morning and arrived in College Station, our new home, at 1:00 am. Glad to leave New Mexico. Not sure that I could live there. The drive took me into west Texas where I saw some new things. The wind was blowing and the tempurature reading was 107. Good thing I put Hank in the cab with me. To capture all the wind in west Texas, they've built thousands of giant windmills. Not the old kind you see in farm pictures but the new white ones with 3 bladed propellers that stand 100 feet in the air. Oil wells were pumping everywhere. No wonder they don't have state income tax in Texas. The other thing I saw were dust devils. Now these are common in the plains area of the country but the frequency of these were amazing. About every 1/2 mile a new dust devil would form from the red clay of the west Texas farmland and come whipping accross the highway. I would have to hold on as the truck would vibrate for one to two seconds and then it would pass. It was like being in a mini-tornado.