Today we drove from Austin to El Paso. Google Maps gets it about right. Without portable DVD players for the children and a selection of DVDs thanks to our friends, it might have been a tough day. With a couple of movie interruptions, high doses of candy, cookies, and soft drinks, things went relatively smoothly.
The speed limit on US 10 in rural west Texas is currently 80 m.p.h. for cars. Even that seems a bit slow, though. There’s lots of open space in west Texas.
We saw a some interesting things from the high seats of our rented Ford Expedition. The aftermath of a hailstorm, rocky hills that appeared bigger from afar than up close, many oil derricks, windmills which seemed to be there to power the derricks, heavy rain and rushing muddy water almost up to the highway, flooded streets and plains, a smashed up semi truck that had overturned in the median, a small, out of the way town Nathalie was glad she does not call home, lots of bikers without helmets or much protection, truck stops in what seemed to be the middle of nowhere.
Michel filmed some of the wide open space. He also tried filming the back seat, in particular three small children with headphones, absorbed in the glow of 7″ LCD screens.
They are all glad to be in the pool now. Nathalie went down to the front desk to ask about pool towels. She had hardly opened the door when the man at the front desk asked her, “Pool towels?”
There nothing more obvious than three kids in bathing suits.
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