Adventorous journey of New Mexico- Day1

It is 26th dec, Tuesday 2006 and we were suppose to depart at 7:00am from austin. But cos of sid, our journey start got delayed by half a day. Sid missed his flg the other day and departed from DC on 26th morning. Meanwhile the same morning i was all set and rented our SUV. It was FORD Escape with Navigation system. I drove to home and kept my bags and all stuffs and drove to BestBuy to buy a charger for my iPod. Bout car charger and FM transmitter for my iPod so we can listen all my iPod on our SUV audio system. Fast fast i went to pick sid at airport. Flgs were late and finally picked him, he freshen up at my house then we had lunch at the Tacocabana and now all set to start our 800+miles journey to New Mexico. we hit the roads at 4pm from austin. Ouuuuuuf it was too late to start.

There we go ....had our first halt at the fedrigsburg. had icecream and walk around the downtown. I always love this place. Its a german town. U get pretty good wines and german beer here. Its known for the german beer. It was already dark and still the destination was far far away. Sid took the driving seat from this place and we continued to move. It was good to have nav system for such a long distance. its fun avtually. We took US 290W and then finally reached I10 headed W. I10 highway was pretty good and safe. We have to drive approx 250 miles on the I10 stretch.



Ouuf it was tiring run but was getting interesting as it was my first ever long journey by roads. There we were all ready for dinner at the Burger king. after dinner i smoked a cigarate....Vaaah kyaaa baaat hai:) no man i m not a chain smoker lekin once in blue moon on such cold night i never miss such apportunities haha. I took the driving seat now. we took US 285 N. it was already 11pm and this highway was not a safe one too. It was bi-directional one way lane each highway. Sid dozed off pretty much thruout the journey from then.



We had reached El Paso and were closing towards Santa Fe. I was in city limits and it was 2am and suddenly a cop showed his lights to me that means i got caught haha. Yap in city they had speed limits of 35miles (i hate driving at 35)..and i was driving on 45 miles. I got a tkt from that cop. That was my first ever tkt that i got it. man i was angry on that cop. It wasnt that much speedy. well me n sid were already making some fun on the cop ..ofcourse after he left haha. It was less then 10 miutes in some other city....i guess it was rosewell (where you can see UFO museum) a lady cop caught me again for the same reason. man, i was angry on this cops. Cos on highways i drove all the way 100miles and no one caught and in city just for 45miles u r catching me haaaa not fair:). we argued with the lady cop and somehow the lady cop just warned us n left us without any tkts hahaha....


By this time we were in the state of New Mexico. It was night time so cudnt watch anything. it was 3:30am and i was still driving. Mr sid was happily sleeping. sala kaminaaaa:-). i had to loo. I stopped the car on the shoulders and got down and peed in the woods. Ohhh wat a relief. there i breath the coolness of NewMexico air. It was cold and little snow was there on the ground. I got back in our SUV and speeded and finally we took I25S and reached santa Fe and we checked in our hotel at 5am early morning. I drove continously for 6 hrs. Ohh man that was tiring. next day in other blog.. coming up...