Time and Date: ~9:30am, 28 April 2011
Location: San Jon, NM
Odometer: 5800
We drove north through Clovis, NM (home of Jerry's father's family) and continued on lonely state highways and very flat ranch land, passing the occasional stock tank windmill. After some miles, we arrive at a place known as Cap Rock, where the road descends down from the flat plateau on which we had been driving. This forms a ridge which catches the wind that is already in abundance in this area. This is an ideal place to put a "Wind Farm," as they've come to be called.
There were probably a hundred or more wind turbines on this ridge, out in the middle of nowhere, generating electricity for millions of people (at least theoretically). It was an interesting sight. It turns out that these wind farms must be a little like rabbits. We encountered a large number of them on the remainder of our trip. I'd really like to know just how much electricity is really being generated by all these monsters.
A few miles later, we cross under Interstate 40 at San Jon (pronounced "San Hone"), NM. It was around 9:00 in the morning when we stopped for gas and I walked across the street and took this picture of the town's water tower.
We continue a few more miles north on country roads until we come to Logan, NM, where we intersect US Highway 54 and head northeast.
