El Paso, Texas to Lawton, Oklahoma
Just a one day journey today, headed to Lawton, perhaps the only site that you can get to in one day from El Paso. It's a 655mile drive that will actually take us about 9 1/2 hours. IF you do the math, that's a 68.5mph average, telling you all you need to know about the terrain we will be covering.
The drive will be extremely warm, with temperatures in the neighborhood of 100 degrees in El Paso and not much cooler through west Texas. I wouldn't be surprised to see 90s all the way through the drive. The dry line will set itself up along the Texas/New Mexico border, but its associated storms won't go up until around 4 or 5 in the afternoon, and by that time we'll be between Abilene and Wichita Falls, well away from any inclement weather. Hot and dry will be the name of this long, steamy drive.
