Day 5 of our 2018 Jumbo Road Trip.
Abilene, TX. to Monahans, TX. At a scheduled 205 miles, today’s drive is the second shortest of the trip, so we “killed” some time by first driving into downtown Abilene and walking around looking at the 17 storybook statues that are located near the Visitors Bureau.
We also did a bit of geocaching on our short backroad trip west, again finding 4 of the 5 we looked for.
We drove by two separate wind farm installations on the route, one near the town of Merkel, which has the audacity to call itself the Windmill City and one outside Lemesa where this photo was taken, while we hunted for a geocache along US180. Whenever we encounter a wind farm like this I start to hear in my mind the song The Windmills of Your Mind from the original The Thomas Crowne Affair movie.
Tonight’s meal was Mexican. We have been avoiding it as a cuisine on the trip so far, so that we could reserve our taste buds until we got closer to the real deal. We might have waited another day or so until we got into New Mexico, but Donna’s brother Steve, the reason for the stop in this west Texas town, suggested it for dinner.