Day 1: Houston to Amarillo

Hello long-overdue blog post! Today I finally began my long-awaited road trip. It’s been a while since my original post about the trip. In that time, I’ve been rather busy, spending close to two months in Malaysia (for which there are blog posts I still haven’t written, but do plan to), in addition to planning for this trip.

The final route for the trip has me headed from Houston to Amarillo, then on to Albquerque, Flagstaff, Bakersfield, Las Vegas, Green River (Utah), Denver, back to Amarillo, Oklahoma City, Dallas, and finally, back to Houston! Also on the agenda are The Grand Canyon, Disneyland, Death Valley National Park, and perhaps a few other things.

Now, back to today: the Houston to Amarillo leg of the trip.

I left home around 5:45 in the morning, and finally arrived at my hotel in Amarillo around 5:30 in the evening. So, a little under 12 hours on the road. Not too bad, I think, considering the numerous short stops to take photos, lunch, and one more stop to stretch early on.

Below are a few photos from my phone, I’m uploading the ones taken with my proper camera at the moment, and the full gallery for today will be viewable at this link.

There were a ton of interesting sights along the way some of which I documented with photos, but I’m way too tired to go through everything right at the moment, so I’m going to let these three (short) videos do a little bit of the talking for now.

Random things worth noting:

• Saw a carnival being transported. Group of about six trucks with all sorts of games and contraptions
• Amarillo’s a little windy.
• Lotta dead bugs on the car. Watching the dragonflies hit the windscreen was quite sad.
• There’s a good amount of road work going on on highways 83 and 287. Mostly re-tarring from what I could tell.

I promise all further posts will be longer and more interesting than this brief status update; I doubt I’ll be nearly as tired! Otherwise, things are going swimmingly thus far!