Day 4

We got an early start and drove across New Mexico and into Arizona. I have fallen in love with N.M. and it's wild and barren landscape and Albuquerque has definetely become my favourite city - beautiful highways around the city, southwest influence on bridges and cement work on side of highways and what we saw of the city was pretty. And it's nestled in a valley with mountains arounde it. What more could it want?


How God put this state together is beyond me. You start with sagebrush and rocky ground and small mountains to climb to the top and hit a plateau that goes on for miles in every direction. And what do you find there? More of the same but cold (10_ and winds that took our breath away. No, but really just when you thought you had the state figured out you'd come across a field as green as our lawns in spring - alfalfa that's irrigated. We also found walnut and pecan orchards - who would have ever thought it.

So beautiful that my poor pictures don't do it justice at all. A huge dairy farm in the middle of nowhere, Walmart's that don't sell pre-made salads and no dead animals on the road. And also very few police in sight. Outcrops of rock that take your breath away and we hadn't even reached the states we came to see.
I thought I'd be humorous in my blogs but it's hard to be funny when you see the greatness of God in all he's created and think about how He has blessed us.

Just wanted to end with an update on last night's storm. The tornado warning was for our area and it really looked like we'd see the storm we went looking for, there were warnings on TV all evening telling us what to do in case the storm hit where we were. Anyway, we got 100 kmh winds all night but no storm. We found out this morning it hit 25 miles back the road with hail and all.