Gettin' there

[cjsmith]

Made it to Tucson last night. I highly recommend the Clarion: free shuttle from the airport, stellar friendly service from everyone we've seen, a free glass of wine, nice chicken-in-lettuce-cups dish at the restaurant.

Today: play chicken with the stationary front hanging over Texas. (I think it's a stationary front. The ones what move funny, slithering sideways like beads pulling off a string rather than the whole line traveling somewhere.) Last night we could have gotten to a point nine and a half hours' drive from our destination; as of this morning it looks like just a few hours, and maybe by the time we get there we'll be able to get there.

Oxygen dep makes me sleepy and makes my head hurt. Fine pilot type I am. Sadly, oxygen cannulas make my nose run.

I am supposed to ask quasigeostrophy to explain the effects of the Texas dryline. I may see the answer in a day or two.

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

The dryline is 3-4 hours east of us...Amarillo is about the edge of it. Makes for fine flying, I'm sure!

It's the difference between the high (dry) desert and Tornado Alley. Woo.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can imagine the weather it makes. I don't *know*, which is why I was asking Dan, but that kind of boundary can't be calm!