Texas AGAIN

Cvstar writes:
We left Carlsbad this morning after staying in the Ocotillo Motel (named after a kind of cactus). As we pulled up to the motel last night we saw a bunch of motorcycles on the sidewalk out front. Turns out there is a lounge in the motel as well. It must be the town's biker hangout because in the morning the bikes were all gone. It was rather cool this morning as we headed out and thankfully warmed up to a nice comfortable temperature in the afternoon.
Miles and miles of Texas...AGAIN! We are taking a different route so the scenery is different than coming in. We saw a heck of a lot of cows and get this, even a zebra. I know, I know, you think the highway winds have damaged our brains, but seriously there were zebras. It must have been some exotic farm or something. Along with the zebras we saw lots of other animals today like bison, sheep, goats, antelopes, a dead armadillo, and birds that apparently don't see the orange vests. We have had at least one actually physical encounter with a bird (Beamerpop) and several close calls.
We landed in Brownwood TX for the night!
As requested here is a good picture of the Burgman. This was taken near the Carlsbad Caverns.

Again this is Cvstar...don't know what's wrong with the blogger.

BurgMa adds:
360 miles today. It was amazing to have the roads to ourselves again. And we continue to have wonderful weather; I guess we will need to start watching the Weather Channel again as we get closer to the eastern border of Texas. Today it was cool in the morning but by afternoon we were in T-shirts and our Mesh jackets. The sky was a beautiful cloudless blue. As we got out of southern New Mexico (filled with the oil pumps) we crossed a hilly section of Texas -quite pretty - and the pear cactus became more prolific. There were plenty of Mexican sunflowers again and also a blue phlox alongside the road. This part of Texas is quite green and filled with mesquite. I need to learn more about cattle; I can identify black angus but that's it. It is amazing to see some of the cattle stop chewing and raise their heads to watch us pass.

I had mentioned the hand sign for deer in an earlier post. We also have a sign for cattle --the Texas longhorn sign with thumb towards the temple. Cvstar came up with the sign for horse after day 2 --two fingers pointing upwards next to the temple - resembles horse ears! And the sign for elk is the deer sign moving back & forth from the head - we needed that in Arizona. We need more signals for goats and sheep as we see alot of them. Hopefully we won't see anymore zebra for the rest of the trip....