Green Tripping: New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama AND Georgia

Sunday night after we left our friends, we decided to find the closest Walmart parking lot and pull in and settle in for the night. We thought we would head to the Ski area and sleep there, but it was a bit far, and we didn't even know if there would be space for us to camp. When we woke up, we fixed our normal egg and bacon breakfast in a city park and headed out to explore Santa Fe for the morning and then head East. We got to go to the Plaza and walked through the Native American vendors selling their wares. Lots of silver and turquoise all made into rings, bracelets, necklaces, and other trinkets.

We also made our way to St. Francis Catholic Church.

You may recognize the church from the movie, "Twins."

Picture Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito walking about in this spot.

We also just strolled around looking at the other churches in the area.

And also went to the Capitol.

We saw this statue on the outside and Anthony did his regular pose with another Native American.

Would somebody please just pull the man's finger??!!?? They just aren't falling for it, and I don't blame them.

We found one of our favorite stores:

Ate lunch, and then we decided it was time to head home. This is when we got completely out of character of this whole trip. We found the nearest interstate and got on it.

We were able to get a shower at Santa Rosa State Park. When we take showers, we have been sharing towels, so after I used it (he always let me take a shower first so I didn't have to use a wet towel:) I then walked a few feet out of the bathroom with wet hair, and by the time I handed it to him and walked back to the bathroom, my hair was practically dry. It was crazy.

We drove through Texas.

I don't really need to say anything, but can you tell it was sunny and windy?

When I have driven through Texas on Interstate 40, my nose always knows when I am coming up on this area for miles before I get there. My stomach gets queasy, and here's why:

Not a blade of grass anywhere for these cows.

I am not going to go into a long speech, but would you rather eat these ^cows?

Or these ^?

Anyway, we made it to Elk City, Oklahoma, and slept for the night.

Look carefully, it really does say Oklahoma.

The next morning we pulled up our GPS, and it said we had 790 miles before we made it to Huntsville, Alabama, my mom's and dad's house, our destination for the night. We put rockets on our van, and made quick work of:

(Lots of construction work, take alternate route if possible)

And finally:

Yay!! Home sweet almost Home!!

We had a few people in our welcome party when we arrived. Some very friendly faces I was so glad to see:

:) <3

We even probably smelled, but we got hugs anyway!

The bed felt exceptionally good, and the shower was especially welcome, but it was good also being in familiar territory.

After spending a wonderful night and most of the next day in Huntsville, we decided it was time to make our way home. So we made it to Tennessee again: