We stopped in Albuquerque for dinner. Eddie requested Mexican so I yelped a few places before deciding on which one to go to. the place I picked was called Mariscos Altamar and it was delicious! Plus, you can’t go wrong with $5 happy hour margaritas!

After dinner, I drove again. I had started out driving this morning and then we switched halfway. Our goal was to get to Amarillo, TX tonight so I knew I needed Eddie to drive again once it got dark out. I have a hard time seeing in the pitch black desert.

As soon as I started driving, Eddie fell asleep. Shortly after I kept myself busy by watching a glorious rainbow that had appeared. It looked like there may have been a storm that passed and the sun was setting behind me. I was tempted to wake Eddie up to show him because it was so beautiful but I let him sleep.

Little did I know that that rainbow was not caused by a storm that just passed but by a storm that I was driving right into. It was very eerie. The sky was dark blue (with the rainbow at the bottom) and then it started to change to a weird apocalyptic orange color. By now, I had woken Eddie up because I was getting nervous. I continued driving until I couldn’t handle the random lightening strikes.

We pulled over so we could switch seats. I quickly snapped a panoramic pic of the sky. I’m hoping to blow it up to frame. One end of the sky was clear blue with sun. The other end turned dark and creepy and then into a giant rainbow. Craziest sky I’ve ever seen.

For the next 2 hours Eddie drove as I cried, whined, panic attacked, etc as the sky illuminated before our eyes. Somehow I managed to get a pic of some sideways lightening. I wasn’t looking at it (trust me), I was just holding the camera button down to see if I’d catch it. I caught a bolt which Eddie was impressed by.

We finally got out of the storm and made it to Amarillo for the night. I’m physically exhausted. Panic attacks really wear you out. Tomorrow we’re off to Missouri. Hoping to eat BBQ tomorrow night.