Yesterday I left Fort Hood Texas and started my drive west and north towards Fort Carson CO. My exit time out of the gate was about 5:45am or so Central time. I drove down the multilane local highways pretty much the entire way from Texas to Colorado. This way the view was a bit more exiting to keep me awake. I went through some sleepy towns that looked like they would be hard to live in. A majority of the towns I traveled through had anywhere between 1000+ people to 9000+ people… very small in my standards.

I went up the panhandle of Texas, through the little pice of Oaklahoma, and up the east/central part of Colorado. Overall the trip took me 15 hours or so. Including the Pizza Hut stop and all the refuelings (both vehicle and self).

On this trip I realized that Ive never seen cotton fields. At first I thought it was weird snow… but then realized that the white puffs were sticking only to the plants. Ah, cotton plants. Some of the fields were already harvested, so some of the cotton was not collected and had blown all over the place… including the roads and all surrounding areas the wind blew. In most of Texas, there seemed to be an abundance of skunk chunks. Dead skunks and dead skunk body parts all over the road for hours. Skunk Chunks.

Near the border of Texas is where the snow had begun. On into Colorado is where the snowing and ice had begun. It started out being a bit nipply, then went on to being quite cold indeed. Thats ok, my heater worked. Most of the time traveling I didnt have phone service. Roaming for almost the whole trip. Radio stations were quite scarce as well. At one point, I listened to one station (the only one available)… their call sign was 96.1 The One. Is it the one because there is no number two in their broadcast area? Oh well.

The trip was uneventful in the way of drama but I saw a lot of cool sights. Pics to come… Now I am at Fort Carson Colorado with Lord Ratboy and Coney. Pizza was first on the agenda as well as a possible snowboarding trip over the upcoming weekend. We will see.