Continued from Albuquerque Day 2.

Last day of our family summer road trip, whole day will be devoted to travel. We had originally booked a hotel about 2/3 of the way from Albuquerque to Austin in Sweetwater, TX. But seeing how the kids are doing pretty well on these longer driving days, we made the decision a few days ago to cancel our hotel reservation and just push on driving for the whole day. RL and me both feel great about this decision. We are just tired of being in a hotel room with kids, and especially if we are staying in a town just purely for the sake of spending the night.

Defender in its most natural environment, a Starbucks parking lot.

Roughly 12 hours of traveling, let’s fucking go.

Surprisingly good road trip radio station on spotify based off of ymca song.

Historic Route 66 eh.

Gas station stop, has a Popeye’s chicken, I guess we’ll get something here for lunch.

RL’s turn driving. My wife looks hot driving this car.

Doh, construction.

Close to the Texas border. I wonder how many people drive across the border to shop at these dispensaries.

There are so many dispensaries.

Wait, there’s a camera out? Pose!

Pose again!

Last dispensary before Texas.

Closer to home, but no where close to home.

I think if we hadn’t cancelled our hotel room, we would have stopped before this time. That would suck, to be so close to home but yet having to spend another night away from home. Such a good idea that we cancelled our stop over in Sweetwater, TX.

The car’s nav thinks will get back at almost 3am. It’s wrong, I think we are scheduled to be back at around 9pm.

More gas stops. Kids are doing pretty well considering that we are just driving straight through.

We can breath easier now in this more reasonable altitude.

Just broken pieces waiting to fall off and hit another car.

Dinner?

After that very very long day, finally back! I feel jetlagged.

2282.9 miles later, we shall declare the Colorado Road Trip a great success. Finally got to tackle my personal bucket list of driving a car across one of those Colorado mountain passes. Oh yeah.