1,000 Cool-Kid Points to anyone that gets the reference in the top picture before they read the Blog Post. Today was a long day; long in miles and long in time. Yesterday, you see we crossed over to from Texas to New Mexico, meaning we went from Central Time to Mountain Time. Set aside for a moment how entirely ridiculous it is that West Texas should be in the same time zone as Eastern Illinois. The two places are only 1,100 miles apart, after all. In Springfield ILL, by 6am the sun was well over the horizon. In Amarillo TX, it's pitch black at 6am. Add in that today we crossed from New Mexico to Arizona, a peculiar little state in that aside from being the only one of the 50 that doesn't recognize MLK Day
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