Day 4 - Little Rock to Amarillo

It was just about freezing when we got up this morning, but our water lines still ran. After our own coffee, Ellen’s fine banana bread and needed hot showers at Maumelle Park, we were back on the road for another long slog along I-40. It is a pretty straight run as we crossed the rest of Arkansas into the flat, straight and almost featureless lanscape of Oklahoma. We made only a couple of fuel and coffee stops as there were very few rest areas in Oklahoma, but we did get in two 10 minute walks. We got into Texas in the late afternoon and took a break at the Gray County rest area well beyond the state line just as the sun was setting.

We decided to drive another hour to Amarillo as it was getting dark. Just after we left the rest area we started to drive through an enormous wind farm. It stretched neary 30 miles along the road and as far as we could off to the north. There must have been at least a thousand turbines. The stangest thing was the lighting. Each turbine had a bright red warning light on the nacelle (FAA required I suspect) and they all blinked synchronously. All thr red lights on, all the red lights off for as far as we could see. I can imagine what it looked like from the air.

It was about 7pm when we pulled into the Amarillo Cracker Barrel for another inexpensive dinner an free parking overnight. Tomorrow it is on to New Mexico.