Day 30- Driving from Santa Fe to Oklahoma City

Can you say 600 miles?  That is how far we drove today!  It was difficult leaving Bonnie and Mirtha this morning.  Everyone slept in, we had a late breakfast, and finally got on the road at about 11:45.  We knew we had about an 8 hour plus drive.  What we didn't take into consideration is crossing into yet another time zone!  So today we drove the rest of the way through New Mexico, across the top of Texas through Amarillo and into Oklahoma City, OK.  It is now 11:30 pm and we are all just getting to bed.  Once again priceline.com has come to our rescue.  There is nothing like sinking into a nice, newly made bed with fresh sheets after a day of driving. Originally we were going to camp in Elk City, OK.  But once the temp was at 100 degrees and we discovered that we had lost another hour we decided to priceline something.  We actually got this room (at a Sheraton) for the same price as a campsite!  Tomorrow we have a similar day.  Our goal is to get to Memphis, TN by tomorrow evening to have dinner with another of Len's cousins.  That will mean driving the rest of the way through Oklahoma, across the entire state of Arkansas and then into Tennessee.
The scenery was pretty much the same all the way across I-40 eastbound.  We saw fields and fields and more fields filled with corn, cows, horses, and wheat.  We also passed many, many trains that ran along the highway.  We did pass one exciting thing near Amarillo, Texas.  We passed "Cadillac Ranch" which is a field that has about 7 or 8 Cadillacs half buried sticking out of the ground. As the story goes, this particular farmer purchased a Cadillac that he was very unhappy with.  As a way to "get back" at General Motors he purchased one Cadillac a year and buried it sticking out of the ground right next to the highway.  Bonnie had told us about it but we were almost beyond the entire thing before we realized what it was.  So, although we got to see it, we did not get any photos of it.
We did not take any photos today. BUT, I did manage to upload the video of flying over the Grand Canyon so hopefully that will be entertaining!