Today was even longer than yesterday. We got up at 7:30. It took until 8:15 to get going, so we were a little late. The wind wasn't as strong as yesterday, but it was picking up just in the time we were getting ready to leave.
Our original target was Deming. The wind was killing the mileage. It blew at 25-30 all day long. It was a dead headwind that cut the mileage to 9.5 at best. The truck regenned twice. Going through El Paso wasn't too bad. It was still 25 miles of traffic with a bunch of drivers that didn't know what they were doing. One guy hit his breaks in front of me, slowed down, and drove off the freeway to the frontage road. He didn't bother with a blinker.
We gained an hour at Van Horn. When we got to Deming it was still early afternoon. I decided to go on (see a pattern?). We were first going to stop at Lordsburg. Then we decided to go onto Wilcox. We finally ended up in Benson. The wind never let up the whole way. We spent a total of almost 10 hours on the road. We traveled 510 miles. Because of the time gain, we got to the park before 5.
I'm not sure where we'll end up tomorrow. I'm kind of thinking about Kingman, but we may end up in Boulder. If you told me we'd be in Boulder by the 29th, I'd have told you you were crazy.
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