Miles and Miles…

… of nothing but miles and miles.  

That’s how my mother described driving through Texas, and that’s exactly what we have experienced as we’ve been driving through this part of the country these last several days.  It’s beautiful, but oh-so-very isolated and remote.  In every direction, we see ranch land, fences, steers, mesquite trees and cactus-choked, arid land far and wide with a mountain range thrown in every now and again.  This is West Texas….