2nd Day

The first day of our trip we drove for twelve hours only through Texas, for those of you who don't have an idea of how sweeping this state is. The second day of driving we crossed New Mexico, Arizona, and finally reached our destination in California. The speed limit for most of our trip was 80 mi/h, which was a little unnerving at the beginning. I had forgotten how low our speed limits in Houston are. Driving on an inner city highway faster than 70 mi/h was scary to me. I don't think that one person in CA drove below 85.

The uneventful second day was only marked by the fact that we had to stop at three immigration checkpoints in NM and AZ. We were asked if all people in the vehicle were American Citizens, and then we were sent on our merry way. We wondered how those stops were useful, since they never asked for any identification. Just took my word for it. They certainly slowed us down and extended our driving time with ah hour and a half. It was somewhat reminiscent to crossing borders in Europe, but not really. If you have no legit papers, you ain't going anywhere! We saw our tax dollars in action - allocated to questionable highway patrols.

Here are some more pictures of the most exciting parts of our drive- statue of a dinosaur, cacti, more cacti, small bushes, no bushes at all...and our little Esther trying to listen to a movie.