Day One

 Here's  our overall  trajectory. 

Well,   I had written a nice blog  with posts from  various  parts of the day,  but  it is somehow lost to the internet  install updates  I had to do,  so  I'll just summarize in  photos.  

Here we are about  45 minutes in on our way to Llano.  We stopped to get  a couple of gallons of  water  to have in case of  incident.  

 The  day started off with an incident at  6:45  Jeff was up and discovered that the lock on our  new truck cover was broken  so  he had to drive upto the north land to get it fixed.  Just what you want to add to a day in the car.  But at least it happened before we left.   We  also had to replace a breaker the night before, again at least we found out before we left.  

On the way to Llano we saw tons of  new construction and a lot of dry river and lake beds with people's docs just down in the dry beds.  It was pretty sad.  This part of the drive is really pretty. 

From  Llano,  the next landmark was Brady.  Brady is the geographic epicenter of  Texas and also figures prominently in the movie  Zombieland.   Btw, we recently saw the sequel on Netflix and it is quite enjoyable. 

After that the drive starts to get rather dull scenery wise for a good long while.  

Lots of  windmills.   We  saw some pronghorn  which was cool.  I just read an article about them in Texas Monthly.  They are most closely related to the giraffe and okapis.  

Then, we  made it to New Mexico.  

and  finally to Roswell.   

And ended the day  with mexican food and a margarita.