North Texas

After we left Plainview, our whole morning looked like this.

Plainview, Texas

This is the life-size fiberglass bull totem that guards the Plainview Wal-Mart. Or at least I like to think of it that way. (I am not just being an arch hipster with these photos; we went in there and bought groceries, since Wal-Mart seems to be the only place in some of these towns that sells food.) We saw some cool old buildings in Plainview, and a lot of strip malls. James Dean is from here. It says so on the big water tower.

Adrian, Texas

We crossed into Texas around 10pm on Saturday night--which immediately turned into 11pm because Texas is in a whole new time zone. After a while we pulled off in Adrian, on Old Route 66, hoping to find a place to stay. Adrian turned out to be a spooky old retro ghost town with no open motels, but we did find a derelict service station with a tree growing through the front. I don't know if it comes through in the pictures, but it was one of the most beautiful buildings I have ever seen. The tower is a co-op cotton hopper, which are all over Texas. After Adrian we got back on the interstate and ended up driving most of the night.

Somewhere on the Highway, NM

We stopped to take a nap and I took this. I am still figuring out night pictures, obviously. But I like how ghostly this is.

New Mexico and Texas

After leaving Taos, we drove south and east out of New Mexico and over to Amarillo (that's "Ama-rilla") Texas. Now we're stopped at a rest area about 200 miles north of Austin. Texas has amazing rest areas, new and pretty and comfy, with free wireless internet! It's a bit slow though, which is why this post has no pictures. I'll come back and put them up later--we got some really cool ones of a derelict gas station in a Route 66 ghost town, and a life-size fiberglass cow in James Dean's hometown.

Leaving Taos, NM

We had such a nice time here! It was great to see our cousin and her family, and Taos is such a neat town--I'm glad we stopped for so long.

Halloween in Taos

It got cold all of a sudden, and we thought it would snow but it didn't. Our cousin's family had a big party with a bonfire and lots of rowdy kids. It was really nice. I dressed up as Frida Kahlo and played accordion all night. Perhaps I ate a little too much candy.