{"id":21408,"date":"2019-02-16T14:48:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T19:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=21408"},"modified":"2022-06-10T06:30:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T11:30:47","slug":"cross-country-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/cross-country-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Country, Part 6 (The Western Half)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=21399\">first half of the drive<\/a> seemed almost routine as it ran through terrain familiar to a lifelong resident of the eastern part of the United States.&nbsp;However we still had a couple of days to go and we began moving into unfamiliar territory.&nbsp;Here I captured a wide swath of <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=21284\">previously unvisited counties<\/a> straight through the heart of Texas and into southern New Mexico and Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Weather&nbsp; Turns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/45565936685\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7903\/45565936685_b70ef1a2eb_b.jpg\" alt=\"Texas Rainbow. 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