Long day driving today. Not sure how many miles, but I was on the third tank of gas by the time I landed for the night. It was cool to cross the continental divide. I drove across this once before when I was 16, driving cross-country through Montana ( I believe) with my best friend Mars. It was one of the classic summer trips you can only do in high school. New Mexico is really beautiful, but it is desolate. Driving along the back roads of Oklahoma and Texas, you'd go for 15 miles or so, then slow down to go through a little town of a couple hundred then back to the ope road. In New Mexico, you go 70 miles a stretch without seeing anything but grazing cattle. There's a lot of open road in this country and wonderful to see just a sliver of it.