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Actually this is late 25th anniversary travel planning. Azucena couldn't take off from school to take a discounted Carnival Cruise along the west coast to Alaska, so this turns out the next best thing. (Any pictures you see on this trip are the ones I took with my DroidX. Azucena took picutures but they are not included here.)

We are going on a sightseeing cruise of our own. Our tour starts in Round Rock. Next destination is Amarillo where we will visit Palo Duro canyon and take on a "musical" of Texas.
After Amarillo, we'll travel west along the historic Route 66 through Albuquerque, New Mexico. The travel time is about 1/2 the time it took to get from Round Rock to Amarillo. But as I like to say, once you get to the border of Texas, you are halfway there (more on the Albuquerque leg later).

Outside of stopping for gas or lunch at a rest area, we made pretty good time. Our goal is not to see how fast we can get there, but see how much sights we can get in. Anyway, I digress. We took the convertable but left the top up. Just too darn hot to go topless. We really didn't do much sighting on the way up except for a few long trains, gas prices and oil derricks. We didn't really have any places we wanted to see on the way here, although we've got about 3 places on our map that will cause us to stick around for another day or two.
We are staying at a Luxury Inn just inside Amarillo. The price is good, internet is free and Azucena is playing Dark Cloud, so all is good in the world at this moment.