June 20 = Texas and on to Oklahoma

We are still at the Big Texan. Having breakfast. Paul is washing the mud off the truck from the dirt road he took storm chasing last night. It was a doozey of a storm. At about 1 am something blew off something. There was a horse hotel/barn right next to us. The horses were pretty frightened. At least the buildings held together. The building definitely creaked and moaned all night.
Off to the yarn store and then into Oklahoma from here...see ya
Here's my son with his Texas sized jelly beans.

I made it to the yarn store in Amarillo. It was small, but had a few interesting things. I bought a couple of yarns in colors for my afghan. Then we high tailed it for Oklahoma. Here's my progress near the Texas Oklahoma state line.

Texas weather

Can you say severe storm warning? Just look at this weather. We stopped here for our traditional once a year dinner on our way across country. A few miles before Amarillo we saw a small tornado sticking out of the side of a cloud. It was pointing up in the air not toward the ground. We decided to stay over night. Lucky for me since we missed my planned Texas yarn store by about an hour.
Oh yeah, they also expect severe storm conditions until after 2 am.
The boys are out storm chasing with the camera.

June 19 = New Mexico and Texas

Okay, right now we're in Gallup getting ready to head out. Plans are that we stop in Albuquerque to go to the Fiesta outlet....seconds they don't sell to their vendors. Can you say deal? I hope so. More later...

Here's my cross country afghan when we reached Albuquerque.

We made it to the Fiesta Outlet.
I wasn't all that impressed. I guess you can save a little, but there weren't many yarns. It is a small space in an industrial building.

Here's the haul! I am using the green Kokopelli on the cone and the balled multicolored Ballet in my afghan. The green is the color of the plants we've been driving by and the multicolor are all color of Albuquerque.