Day 16 - Clovis, NM - Part One

"A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles." - Tim Cahill

Day 16 - Weatherford, OK to Clovis, NM - Daily Distance - 291 miles - The Bucket Trip Distance - 3106 miles

Day 16 starts earlier than any of the other previous days.

A steady stream of a clinking sound wakes me up around 2 in the morning.

As I was falling asleep last night, western Oklahoma was under a severe thunderstorm warning.

And now it was here.

I get up to see what is happening out of my second story window.

A flash of light bathes me as I get there.

Ligthening. Lots of it.

The thunder that rolls in after isn't a sharp crack. It is the low rumble of a thousand motorcycles streaming across the plain.

And then I see the hail.

This may be a reference that you'll only get if you are my age or older but the amount of hailstones look like when the ping pong balls would drop on Captain Kangeroo. There is really is that much coming down.

I hope this storm woke up my Mom.

We've been fortunate to get one storm on this trip and this may be the last one that we get to experience.

I sit and watch for a while. I can see the cars still driving on the highway. I can't imagine what it might be like to drive through this.

I try to get back to sleep.

I don't want to be tired.

We have our own storm to drive through.