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alexpgpWe pulled into the driveway about two hours ago. I am largely relieved (I'll release the rest of my breath when we return the truck in Santa Fe). The drive was largely uneventful today, except for a six-second interval when Galina and I became very well acquainted with the braking capabilities of the truck. It is most likely that the moron who swerved across our lane to turn off the highway never knew just how close he came to becoming intimate with the paysage, but he lives far away, so it is likely that - having almost run into each other today - we'll not run into each other in the future, or at least one can hope.
Most of Kansas, it seems, was covered by some kind of weather advisory last night, either a tornado watch, or a flood warning, or severe thunderstorm warning. The eastern part of the state got walloped pretty good. As we lost consciousness at a Motel 6 in Hays, we did so secure in the knowledge that - despite some flashes in sky - Ellis county was not on any list.
One thing I notice that weather radio broadcasts leave on the back burner when reporting what's going on where is explaining where the bad weather is in terms that non-local people on, say, an Interstate highway can understand (say, mile marker references). It was a little unsettling to hear about 70-mph wind with hail threatening folks in a list of counties that took fifteen seconds to enumerate and not know if the relatively frail truck I am in - at mile marker 311 - is in any of those counties, or headed for any of them.
Today, we took advantage of the GPS capability of my BlackBerry to plot a shortest route from Clovis, Kansas, which took us cross-country on a nice change-of-pace route through some pretty scenic territory in southeast Colorado, past towns with names such as Kit Carson, Cheyenne Wells, Hasty, and Las Animas.
The GPS feature eats battery power, and while the screen saver capability helps in that regard, the unit has a maddening habit of losing "lock" on its position and refusing to find any satellite until the application is shut down and restarted. If I do something like this again, I'll want to do it with a dash-mounted GPS.
Galina and I are bushed. We just had dinner, and may have just enough strength left to watch tonight's episode of Castle.
I'm sure going to try, anyway.
Cheers...
Most of Kansas, it seems, was covered by some kind of weather advisory last night, either a tornado watch, or a flood warning, or severe thunderstorm warning. The eastern part of the state got walloped pretty good. As we lost consciousness at a Motel 6 in Hays, we did so secure in the knowledge that - despite some flashes in sky - Ellis county was not on any list.
One thing I notice that weather radio broadcasts leave on the back burner when reporting what's going on where is explaining where the bad weather is in terms that non-local people on, say, an Interstate highway can understand (say, mile marker references). It was a little unsettling to hear about 70-mph wind with hail threatening folks in a list of counties that took fifteen seconds to enumerate and not know if the relatively frail truck I am in - at mile marker 311 - is in any of those counties, or headed for any of them.
Today, we took advantage of the GPS capability of my BlackBerry to plot a shortest route from Clovis, Kansas, which took us cross-country on a nice change-of-pace route through some pretty scenic territory in southeast Colorado, past towns with names such as Kit Carson, Cheyenne Wells, Hasty, and Las Animas.
The GPS feature eats battery power, and while the screen saver capability helps in that regard, the unit has a maddening habit of losing "lock" on its position and refusing to find any satellite until the application is shut down and restarted. If I do something like this again, I'll want to do it with a dash-mounted GPS.
Galina and I are bushed. We just had dinner, and may have just enough strength left to watch tonight's episode of Castle.
I'm sure going to try, anyway.
Cheers...
