Windmills and Tin Men...

For Chas, Simon, and Mia...and Danny, too!

Oh, the sites we've seen in this amazing country. We passed miles of windmills in Texas, and then we saw the windmill parts being transported along the highway... How much electricity can we generate with windmills? http://www.windmillworld.com/windmills/faq.htm

I was driving when PopPop took the pictures. We were on Highway 10 between Ozona and Fort Stockton in Texas. Can you find that on a US map?

The speed limit was 80 miles an hour, but PopPop said I could not drive that fast. So I drove at 65 miles per hour. How many miles did I drive in five hours if I was driving that fast? How many miles would I have driven if PopPop said I could go 80 miles an hour? How much earlier would we have arrived in Las Cruces, New Mexico? We actually arrived at 3:15. BUT that was on Mountain time...so really, by the time we had been driving all day, we arrived at 4:15.

It was a long day for Nana and PopPop, so we really appreciated a good hotel with a nice big window to watch the evening thunder and wind storm, and also a pool and hot tub. We felt like the Tin Man we saw earlier in San Antonio, in someone's garden...Do you remember what movie the Tin Man is in? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Woodman

If you solve the problem of speed and distance, write and tell me the answer. Then I can tell PopPop how much sooner we'll get to Rte 66 if he lets me drive faster...