Wednesday May 17^th 2006

Today was a travel day. We drove from Edmond to Amarillo, a journey of about 260 miles. We left Edmond at 1145am CDT, and took I-40 westbound. This is the old “Route 66”. After a brief stop for lunch (Subway), we continued west. The picture of a plane below was taken in Oklahoma, just off of j’n 50 of I-40, at around 14:00 CDT. The plane looked like some kind of military one. Although there are no storms about, the weather is lovely. Temperatures are about 29C (84F) with low dew-points and a westerly breeze – not quite what we want, but at least it’s warm!

We went to the Big Texan steak house for dinner, and met up with fellow UK chasers Steve, Pete and James.

Tomorrow we are going to drive from Amarillo to Winslow, Arizona – about 600 miles or so! This is so we can go to Meteor Crater and the Grand Canyon on Friday, before heading north and then east through the Colorado Rockies (via Monument Valley) ready for (possible) storms early next week in the northern Plains states.