It's question time???

Am writing this by the pool.  We are staying at Western Skies Motel in San Linus New Mexico.  Will give it a 9/10 as most of the other hotels are a bit run down even though the service was great at all these other motels they were only a 7/10. 

Like to say hi to all Jan's checker friends who are following me around especially those that live in the USA.  You have a beautiful country.  Back home we are not used to these big open spaces and it was amazing this morning after we set off.  We had clear blue sky's but you could see all these vapor trails of the Jets all crossing each other.  Looked like a giant checker board LOL.

So far on the trip we have done 1100 miles so my bum is starting to get a bit sore. We are a bit disappointed with Route 66 as most of it seems to be on the I 40 but what we have seen is great.  They must have been hardy buggers back in the 30’s and I can't imagine what it must have been like for the early settlers crossing this country.

Now I have a few questions:-

1. Where the hell does all the freight go?  I have never seen so many trucks, they just keep coming and coming and the bleeding freight trains!  Train after train.  Mark tried to count how many containers to a train but nearly went off the road.  He gave a rough count and came up with 250 containers / wagons.

2. How do people survive in the middle of nowhere?  You see houses with the latest ute beside it, do they have jobs?  Where do they get their water from? And the towns in the middle of the desert where it is 40 degrees, where does every one work?  If anyone has the answers email them to Jan.

Had brunch in Gallup at the casino and went and visited the miners museum in Grants. 3 hours to Roswell tomorrow hope to get there by lunchtime so we can get a good look around.

Bike is going well. And have sorted out the gas problem.  My fuel gauge is broken as its showing a full tank all the time so now when I fill up I reset my mileage recorder back to 00 and when I get to about 150 miles I know its time to refill. I can get 180 miles on $14.00.

9.00pm and we are all going to bed as a bit buggered and Mark has a head cold.

Location:San Linus