Day 1-"Chasing the Sun"

As most of you know me and Laura started our journey to San Fran Monday night after we got off work. We left bham around 9:00 monday night and drove to Memphis. We spent the night in a motel just across the Mississippi River in Arkansas. We woke up Tuesday morning and began driving again. We made such good time, we went through Arkansas, Oklahoma, and then Texas and finally stopped just over the New Mexico border in a town called Temancali (or something like that). We drove a total of about 12 hours. We decided we HATE Oklahoma...there is absolutely NOTHING there! The wind was blowing so bad in Oklahoma...we stopped and tried to get gas but the town was out of power due to the wind blowing a pole down. We also passed these windmill things in Texas...I think these supply power. We felt like the day was forever long because we were driving into the sunset. The sun finally went down around 7:15 that night. We spent this night in a run down Motel 6 that was not very nice but we slept great after a long day of driving.