This will be a quick post as it’s difficult to write as we are driving.  Between the sometimes bumpy road and wicked wind, I feel like I’m going off the rails.

We are traveling the Ports to Plains Corridor and heading to Amarillo, TX for the night.  The scenery rolls from mountains to plains as easy as a brush on a painting.

Mountains follow us from one state to another. However, they are getting shorter and further apart as we travel.

Until you are in the Plains. This is where the wind picks up. The average wind speed in Amarillo TX is 13.5 mph, and we haven’t even gotten there yet.  My third grade students learned this past year how devastating wind can be in the Great Plains. For us, it has just made driving difficult for Captain Jim. And, it hasn’t made it any cooler.

What has been cool,  in a nerdy way, are the very, very long trains.  These trains on the Plains are mainly sustained beyond our frame… of view…. Sorry, I couldn’t resist. Terrible rhyme, but hopefully, you get the picture.

Our favorite of the day was in Texline, Tx. Texline was named for its location close to the New Mexico and Texas border, so this was technically one of the first trains we saw. This train was so long that if there was a town to see, we totally missed it.