How did I pick this title for our post? Let me explain, as we drive through Texas, this vast landscape, we do see many cows (thousands)! However, the “C” means COTTON. We saw cotton fields everywhere. The “O” is for OIL. There are thousands of the pumpjacks that pump oil from the ground, different colours and some running and some not. The “W” is very interesting. Something Paul and I did not expect at all. The “W” is for WIND FARMS…. I mean a lot. We passed through the largest in the world; near Sweetwater, Texas. There are over 600 of them, I will post this picture but a picture is not worth 1000 words this time. From as far as we can see, 360 degrees, there are these huge structures.
We learned that Texas has the largest wind power than any other state. Roscoe Wind Farm is the biggest in the world. That explains everything now after we have driven through. Ten percent of Texas gets their power through wind.
The cotton fields are not picturesque but thought you might be interested to know that Texas is number 1 in the U.S. for cotton (the wonder fiber). They produced 5.5 million bales in the last 3 years and I know you are wondering … how much in a bale? 500 lbs of cotton in 1 bale! Yes, we have seen thousands of cows too but that is not too exciting for our blog.
We are in Santa Fe, New Mexico now and enjoying the mountainous, beautiful scenery. As soon as we entered this state the architecture changed instantly. Here are pictures.
This was a very very old church
This is downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico
St. Francis Basilica Church, beautiful inside
As we were travelling to Santa Fe we passed a town Farwell Texas, attached to this town is Texico, New Mexico. We passed state lines. When this happened the time changed immediately from Central time zone to Mountain time zone…… my cell phone went back 1 hour. It was freaky. What happens if you live in one town and work in the other?? These people need to have 2 clocks in their homes!
