JoJo's Photobox: Beep! Beep!

Friday - August 15, 2008

Beep! Beep!

I'm back on the road and headed home. I had such a good time avoiding the Interstate highway system on my way out that I decided to avoid it on the way back as well. It takes longer to get where I'm going but I can stop and enjoy the scenery and take photos. Lots and lots of photos.

On my way out, I drove up to Lubbock and then over to Albuquerque...using state and US highways as much as possible. I did take I-25 to drive down to Socorro (after spending a few days in Albuquerque) but then went west and looped around to Silver City. After spending a couple of days there, I headed back to Austin via a more southern route. To avoid I-10 as much as possible, I scooted down to Highway 9 which runs mostly parallel to the New Mexico/Mexico border almost all the way to El Paso. One of the cool things you see along Highway 9 are small (3-to-6 feet high, for the most part as far as I noticed) man-made towers (piles?) of lava rocks. They were used in days of yore as markers of some sort. Today, they just look cool. Entertainingly, along the way, I saw several places where people have placed rocks on top of old fence posts. On top of one such "rocks on top of a fence-post" pile, I spotted this:

[Road runner]

How cool is that?

I'd spotted a road runner sitting on a fence post yesterday when Mom and Dad and I were driving to the Catwalk. But, there was someone driving right behind us and Dad couldn't pull over. So, I got no photo. Today on Highway 9? Nary a soul. I pulled over quick as can be. Heh!

Posted by Joanna at 11:27 PM