Notes - a day in droplets when dead

        You are staying in El Paso, Texas for the night and it is five more hours to Tucson tomorrow. You four had supper at Cracker Barrel after sharing the driving with Craig for the day.

         2105 hours. We left a little after 0800 (local time - Central) this morning and arrived about 1830 hours (local time - Mountain). We stopped at McD's for breakfast earlier and also (300 miles later) for lunch in Junction, Texas. We are some 250 miles further and still 11 miles from the state line (New Mexico). The speed limit on I-10 is 80 mph. They give you 10 more and yet we saw two cars (at different times) pulled over for speeding.  One car passed us going about 120 mph - it was a relatively unmarked Texas sheriff's car. The interstate is four lanes (two each way) but you are instructed to use the left lane only for passing. We only saw one car disobeying this. He was probably doing between 90 and 105. 

         We also passed the Desert Sky Wind Farm near I-10:

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The Desert Sky Wind Farm is a 160.5 megawatt wind power station located near the far West Texas town of Iraan, in Pecos County. The wind farm consists of 107 GE wind turbines, each rated at 1.5 megawatts spread over a 15-square-mile (39 km²) area. American Electric Power (AEP) owns the facility and CPS Energy of San Antonio purchases all power produced under long-term agreements with AEP.

Edited from: Wikipedia

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         This blog is not a travel log but here is an image of where we were for a mere second during the day.

I-10 - West Texas (Google Image)

         At seventy-four miles per hour you were hardly at this photo point for a second. In here, remember, time is measured in droplets and is not so continuous as your mind perceives it. Besides time exists in consciousness only, that is where it matters. If you were to die in your sleep what time did you die? This reminds me of a story once heard from one of the Dead. - Amorella

         A young boy of three died of meningitis. When asked how old he was when he died he said (not too innocently), "Three fingers". Many older people in your culture know of 'hands on a clock" but fingers work too. And, fingers are, in some ways, closer to viewing a unit of time in a droplet. Your day trip in the car was a droplet. Supper a droplet, and later, sleep a droplet. This is the reason I do not use your unit of time measurement. You can see an example of this in the open paragraph of today's posting. - Amorella

         I do not see the advantage of viewing time in this perspective.

         When dead you will see an advantage to it. Post. - Amorella