TRAVELING THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY

Well, we finally did it. We found us a Verizon Wireless while in Pharr and finally got hooked up with a broadband wireless card for my computer. Now we don't have to wait to surf the internet or make a blog entry until we get to a truck stop or WIFI hot spot. I can be merrily working away on the computer while Craig drives down the highway. This will come in handy when we need last minute road or weather conditions, and of course to catch up with the latest breaking news.

As I mentioned in my last entry, we were hoping to have our trailer back by Tuesday morning and we did. While we were at the yard hooking up our trailer, we met up with Harley, the marine driver who went with us on our trip to Yellowknife. It sure was nice to see him again. What really surprised us was that he would also be delivering to Kent, Washington on Monday.

We made it as far as Ozona, Texas, Tuesday night and finally made it out of the State of Texas a little bit past noon. But before we did, we had a fuel stop in El Paso where the wind was blowing so hard the flags were flying straight out as the picture shows. It was so windy the visibility was hampered by the dust. The wind stayed with us until we stopped for the night in Lemitar, New Mexico.

Our plan tomorrow is to make it through the Canyonlands of Utah and into Green River for the night. Let's hope we leave the wind behind us, although we think we will probably be hitting some snow going through the Salt Lake City area. But until then, we enjoyed the view as the sun set on yet another day traveling the information highway.