After my luggage adventures I was glad to be running under my own steam. I left Santa Fe after one night and drove out to Bandelier National Monument, which wasn't far away on the map. However the drive still took an hour because the roads got a little bit rural after a while. The drive was beautiful and I was still excited to be out in a desert environment and away from all those pesky trees and corn fields that had been filling my view for the last three and a ...

I must have upset the god of travelling because things aren't going right for me. So I got to the bus station in Oklahoma City for my 8:15pm bus but it filled up before I got to the front of the queue, which is the first time that's happened to me. Luckily they already had a second bus on the way so at 8:45pm it turned up. Naturally it wasn't until 9:15pm that we got going, so an hour late already. My bag should have gone on the 3pm because I checked it early for...