Reflections of My Travel

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This morning began the real drive home. We got up and drove carefully through the mountains. Up around Vail, we saw the most snow yet as well as the lowest temperature yet – 5.2 degrees farenheit. It was a beautiful drive. When safely out of snow and ice roads, I took over the driving for a bit to let Randal get a little nap. We made it to the Capulin Volcano National Monument in New Mexico a half hour before closing and were able to do a little bit of exploring of it. We drove up to the rim, looked down into it, and then hiked into the bottom of the vent to see what it was like to be in the belly of a volcano looking out. It was pretty neat. It was a great view from the rim too, with over 100 volcanic cones in the surrounding area. Who knew there were that many volcanos anywhere but Hawaii. When through there, we drove down to Amarillo, TX and across through Oklahoma and Arkansas before turning at Memphis through Mississippi and finally heading to Birmingham, where we stopped at Liberty Square (which is supposed to be the largest replica of the statue – per Randal). We made another stop in Anniston before finally making it to Wedowee.