The sun is out, the food is great and the Continental Divide is finally explained

The microwave clock at the Hampton in Kingman swears it is 12:52 AM but my body and brain are rtain it is almost 3:00 AM and they have a wrist watch to prove it. We started out finding the snooze function on my cell and sleeping in until 8:30. After showers and packing, not to mention the obligatory Venti No-Whip Mocha (hot until we get to warmer climes) we were on the road.

I watched the weather as CaDiva showered and it said there was a dense fog advisory with visibility down to a mile. A MILE???? seriously you call that dense. In the midwest we don't call it dense until you have to slice off hunks to see past your hood ornament. Well butter my butt and call me biscuit. Did you know fog could fall on you? I told  CaDiva it was raining on me, and she said no that's just the fog. Well to me, calling drops of water hitting you fog is like calling anything over a 3.5 an aftershock.

But I digress. We drove out of the western Texas plains just as the "fog" started to clear. And BOOM we were in the western Texas hills. I tell you the changing terrain in Texas is like the spring and dusk, they don't take long when they are ready. We drove into the welcome center of New Mexico just as the sun broke free and the temperature climbed into the high sixties. I got pictures of the reproduction of a dinosaur bone bit by a bigger dinosaur. And we got the name of a restaurant three miles down the road with a car museum and well recommended food. 

I'll post the pictures when I get to California, but the food was grand. CaDiva had chicken enchilada - spicy by her taste (of course I already told you she was a weenie) but still she finished every bite, with a significant amount of sour cream to cool the heat.  I had a mushroom Swiss burger and rings. YUM! I also had some of CaDiva's refried beans - oh goodness they were rich and wondrous tasting. 

The rest of the day was spent enjoying the views and the heat and the sun. But as the day drug on we realized how late we were going to be. This wore on us a bit but not so much that we stopped sight seeing. We pulled into the Continental Divide and historic Route 66 scenic view. Did you know that the Continental Divide means that rain fall on one side goes to the Pacific and on the other side goes to the Atlantic? Well I didn't either.

I'll tell you more tomorrow, but now, I'm going to collapse in a heap and sleep until, well until today.