Road Trip, Travel, Van Life

Day and Evening Traveling

Sometimes traveling in the dark is best

I do not understand how people can drive so fast or even the speed limit on Interstate 10.

The roads going through Arizona and beginning parts of New Mexico were littered with old tires shredded by concrete and asphalt.

The pot holes had jagged edges and sunk into the ground like they were ashamed to be there.

Not only do you deal with speeding cars and lumbering 18-wheelers on the high plains and deserts, the weather is a factor as well.

Why is it that the winds seem to die down when the sun goes down? Some of the gusts, whether from the weather or the mountainous trucks shake our van from those treacherous line markings. Go over the line and rumble strips, barely there but still thunderous, warn you to get back, stay in your lane.

Maybe driving at night is better as there are fewer people on the road. Only the bats are out and you can drive in the middle of road with no one around.

You don’t need serious amounts of caffeine, as the road gives you certain scares throughout the night. Your bright lights see half a mile in all directions. You only have to worry about turning them off as the truckers will shine their brights back at you.