Summer road trip with the girlfriend – 9 Days – 4,000 miles through Texas, New Mexico, Colorado. Took the Mazda 3 from 106 degree deserts to hailstorms at nearly 11,000 feet on the Million Dollar Highway. We spent hours cruising at high speed across desert and grassland backroads without seeing another car, building, or person. Driving the new car was so comfortable and so much fun that our first day back we took it out for another 6 hour drive near the Texas Hill Country. I don’t know how but we managed to average about 28mpg through thousands of miles of mountain and high speed driving.
Highlights: Ouray, Durango, Silverton, Albuquerque, Carlsbad Caverns, Fort Davis, White Oaks, Santa Fe, Cloudcroft, Fredericksburg, and too many other small/ghost towns to mention.
