Hey again. I'm in Truth Or Consequences, NM. It's really hard to take decent pictures out here, because the towns are so fucking dumpy! And when it IS pretty, you're on the highway, and it's hard to stop, but not really. I am almost always the only car on the road. Last nite, I figured I could refuel in NM with half a tank of gas coming out of Springerville, AZ. This was not the case. After passing thru a string of oddly-named ass-ugly little NM villages, I finally stopped at a campground in Pie Hole, NM to sleep. I wish I'd taken more blankets in the tent with me, cuz after I got zipped up, coyotes started howling and wild dogs were barking in all directions. I thought it better to freeze, and it was freezing. It was exactly 32 degrees when I woke up today. There was frost all over me from what got into the tent overnite. Very cold J I was. So I took a shit in an outhouse and rolled everything up and turned on the heat until I got to Dilat, where I shaved for the first time, shit more (lol!), and washed up in the bathroom. I've been cruising around NM since about 6am looking for cool places to stop, but honestly there's not much here. I will post what few pics I have on the So Far page, so always check there for pic updates.

Also drove past some creepy satellite things, rows and rows, in Socorro county. Made me think of the movie "Contact". I felt totally cosmic! Sleeping in tent or car is a compromise between hurting my hip (tent) or legs (car), so I know now to pick my injury nightly. Almost to El Paso, but I think I'll take some more crazy NM highways to get there though, cuz it shares a border with Mexico, and that's just way too close for a non-violent J. like me. Peace out, ya'll. I gotta write some in the book.