Day 5

Day 5 – January 19th, 2009

This morning we woke up around 7:30. It was another cold night, but after the long day of driving, the cold wasn’t enough to stop us from getting a solid night of sleep. It’s hard to recall what time, but New Mexico seemed to come and go very easily. There wasn’t a lot of excitement in that state, other than the view of reddish mountains in the distance and desert plants along Interstate 10. Jeff claims that he saw a U.F.O. in the sky to the south, but I’m pretty sure it was a blimp, and he was just bored.

At around 3:00 PM, we arrived at the border of Texas. I was expecting to see cowboy hat-wearing horse-riders and old fashioned saloons along the highway, but, to be honest, it looked exactly the same as Arizona and New Mexico. El Paso was a busy city with some traffic, but as soon as we got through it, it was back to pale green plants and distant mountains. I hope we’ll at least see a rattlesnake on the side of the road tonight.

The vehicles are holding up great and our drivers are even better!


Sean Leisner

It’s 11:00pm and I have just had my nap and am waiting for my turn to drive. We are trying to get down near San Antonio tonight to make up a little time. We are running in shift so that everyone gets there chance to sleep.

In defense to what Sean had said, I think it may have been a really slow moving UFO that just appeared to look like a blimp. I mean really how do we know we didn’t build our blimps to match UFOs.

Drove until 02:00 last night then slept in the vehicles. Freezing!!!!! We are approximately 130 miles from San Antonio. So we should make it to the border tomorrow.

Jeff Palensky