This Way to West Texas

We left Santa Fe and headed off on our longest drive -- twelve hours on the road to Austin. To get there, we would have to first cross West Texas.

You know how people blank out experiences which are too traumatic? I wish there were something like that for really boring experiences, because that's what West Texas was like: Hundreds of miles of nothing, with the occasional cow or grain silo to break things up, and the fool's promise of more than one bar of cell coverage as we drove.