Boulder has great New Orleans food, and dry air gives us mondo boogers!

Breakfast at Lucile's in Boulder with (L-R) Julie, Aubrea, LF, me, and Uncle Mark Miller who lives in nearby Arvada and who we called up last minute and he was thankfully home and met us this morning for a great meal. had not seen him for a few years and it was great to catch up with him! He is a musician too, as well as all those girls there so we had fun talking music. had a cajun omelet,yum!

Drove a heck of a long ways today, Down 25 nearly all the way to sante fe, then caught a shortcut hwy 84 to hwy 40 east.

Drove through a insane down pour (pictured). emerged unscathed. drove through New Mexico, entered texas, crusised through Amarillo, and shot right out the other side of the Panhandle into Oklahoma (yes, the wind does go sweeping down the plain). We saw a HUGE lone wind turbine in a little town in texas called Tucumcari, swore it was the biggest we ever saw. And we've seen an impressive number of wind power generators popping up all over the country sides so far on our road trip-an encouraging sight even if they are all subsidized by uncle sam. they are nevertheless clean renewable energy which is a heck of a lot better than more oil rigs, right?

About 2am we couldnt drive anymore and found a cheap Super 8 motel. the room is actually really clean and nice and the bathroom i about yelped when i turned the light on. It is so nice! Really! like recently and tastefully remodeled.

We got so engrossed in conversation earlier tonight that we nearly ran out of gas. the little light blinked on and we made it about 5 miles later to a little isolated station which was closed but the pumps were on. there was this old crumbling VW camper bus sleeping right by the pumps. ahh, memories. sight of vw's in the lone star state makes me think of Don Miller's memoir Through Painted Deserts, about leaving home in houston and driving across the west with his buddy in a similiar old bus. It was originally titled Prayer and the Art of VW Maintainance. Lindsay's new favorite word is "Dingleberry".

Which applies to anything and everything apperently. Here's one, actually!