Roadtrip: Texas Bound

There isn't much to be said about the trip to Texas. A lot of desert that is about it. Daniel and I were happy to go where  the GPS sent us, so we took a scenic route. Saturday we started in West Jordan and ended in Cortez, CO. The drive was mildly short and had very pretty sights with lots of red rock and many canyons. Sunday we decided to hit up a church service. We entered in the coordinates as before into our trusty GPS, we began driving and it proceeded to lead us to a dead end! Needless to say the GPS was the punchline of most of our jokes after that. After a very friendly sacrament meeting in Cortez we continued on to Tucumcari, New Mexico. We went a different route that took us through more canyons and helped us bypass major construction zones. Yay for the GPS!

Tucumcari was shut down. We had no idea the town would be so shut down. I guess we had forgotten it was sunday. Anyway, we had asked the hotel worker where would be a good place to eat that had some Mexican food. She said Pow Wow was a good place. Daniel looked online and said it was a buffet, neither one of us are keen on buffets so he looked around the area and found another restaurant. We sent out to find dinner and a post office to mail out some thank yous for wedding gift we had received. As we drove into the town more we noticed closed signs posted and it dawned on us that the small town would be all closed and the worker had suggested the only restaurant open. So we headed back to the hotel and decided to try a local burger joint-Lotaburger- it was descent and we got to see what the people of Tucumcari were like first hand( I would say the people of New Mexico, but I don't think that would be fair.)
Monday was our final day of driving. We drove most of the day in Texas but still had to drive for 7 hours before we arrived in Arlington. I would say it was a pretty easy drive and most of the way was straight once you get out of Colorado. The worst part of the drive was when we took the exit for Amarillo and we were on a highway that took you through small towns so you would be at the speed limit 70 and then suddenly it would drop you down to 50 then 30 to pass through the town. Also, I was pulled over for driving in the left hand lane, which by the way is only for passing. I did not get a ticket though which was a bonus :)