Thursday, July 9, 2009

Amarillo

 

A nice morning bird walk at Lake Colorado City State Park before we left.  21 birds:  northern bobwhite, turkey vulture, mourning dove, common nighthawk, golden fronted woodpecker, ladderbacked woodpecker, eastern phoebe, western kingbird, scissor tailed flycatcher, cliff swallow, barn swallow, bushtit, cactus wren, northern mockingbird, curve billed thrasher, canyon towhee, black throated sparrow, northern cardinal, great tailed grackle, brown headed cowbird, bullock’s oriole.

 

Climbing our way up the interstates.  We went a long way north to get to Interstate 10 the first night.  Interstate 20 the second night.  Now we’re at Interstate 40.

 

A large clean asphalt big-rig park in Amarillo.  Look at the rig next to us.  I paced off the length.   It’s ten feet longer than us.  Diesel, but not a pusher.  A 50 foot puller.

 

Another warm day; triple digits.

 

720 miles since Port Aransas.

 

Tomorrow… North.

 

 

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