5 Days to Texas: Days 4 & 5

Day 4
We head out from the Little America Hotel to find a Subway (lunch) and Starbuck's (breakfast). We then head east across the Painted Desert and the Petrified Forest. We cross the New Mexico border just before noon, meaning we have managed to be in Arizona for less than 24 hours. We stop to east our sandwiches, then continue on through Albuquerque and then turn southeast toward Roswell. We arrive well before sunset, check into the hotel, then find a grocery store to pack dinner into our room.

No aliens are sighted as we bed down for the night.

Day 5
Same routine this morning: Subway and Starbuck's. We are now officially on two-lane highways until we reach San Antonio in a couple of days. The drive is long, but not stressful. We have crossed another time zone boundary and lost another hour, but we make it to Fredericksburg without incident.

Having travelled 2,547 miles in 5 days, we are done with the hardest part of our Road Trip. We get to spend an entire day without starting the car!

We check into the Hoffmann Haus. (More on that in the next post.) We visit Otto's for dinner, where we sit at the bar next to a local woman who comes here once every week or so. We have a fun conversation with her, as well as a delightful meal. If you have only one night in this town, skip the faux-German spots on the main drag and head to Otto's.

We are all in, so head back to the B&B and call it a night.