My TV interview in Texas/New Mexico is Beautiful!

As usual, it's been quite a long time since my last post...Since then, I went through Texas for a couple of days. On our 100 mile ride into Amarillo, TX, I had a minor run-in with a traffic cone. It was about 80 miles into the ride, and I was biking through some road construction where there were tall skinny orange cones with exceptionally wide black bases. I was riding too close to the girl in front of me, so when she swerved to barely miss a cone, I ran into it! I got some road rash on my arm and knee, but other than that I was fine.
We had a Build Day in Amarillo the next day, which was great and I got interviewed by a local news station, which aired my interview on TV that night! Here is the link to the written story. If you click the "watch" button, you will be able to see me being interviewed!
http://myhighplains.com/content/fulltext/?cid=14221
That night, we all went to this resteraunt called the Big Texan, where there is a 72 oz steak eating competition. One guy from our trip, Jorge, entered the contest, and we all cheered him on. He managed to eat all but 9.8 oz of the steak, which was pretty impressive!
After making it through Texas, we came into New Mexico, where we had a day off in Roswell. Roswell is basically a town obsessed with aliens and UFOs! My uncle, Gene, met me there because he only lives 3 hours away in Santa Fe. We went to the UFO museum, on the Space Walk, and to the Roswell zoo. It was all very interesting...and slightly unnerving!
Today I rode 100 miles from Roswell to Carizozo, NM. It was amazing! We biked through a mountain pass that was covered in cacti and other desert plants. It was sprinkling for most of the day which was a nice break from the dry heat we have been experiencing so far as we ride through the desert. At the end of the ride, we had a 13 mile descent into Carizozo. That part of the ride was incredible because as we rode down into the valley, I could see the mountains getting smaller and smaller on either side of us until it was flat again. New Mexico might just be one of the prettiest places in the US!