What We Wore: October Weather Along Route 66

🌦️ Las Vegas: Not What We Expected

We arrived in a storm, and for the first few days it was windy and far cooler than usual, only just reaching 20 degrees, with spots of rain. Jeans, T-shirts, a light jacket and trainers. By midweek it was shorts and vest tops in the mid-twenties.

🌲 Arizona and New Mexico

Through Albuquerque and Santa Fe it was mostly jeans and T-shirts with a hoodie or light jacket. We even relaxed on sun loungers for a couple of hours, still in jeans! Apart from one heavy shower driving back from Santa Fe, we dodged the rain until an evening thunderstorm.

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⛈️ Into Texas

The drive to Amarillo started warm and sunny, then turned into extremely heavy rain with thunder and lightning. Amarillo itself was a mixed bag: a very dark wet day, then a chilly, really windy morning that became bright sunshine in the low to mid twenties.

One thing to note: it's always chilly indoors in the United States, so a cardigan or jumper lives in my bag whatever the weather.

📋 My October Packing List

• 👖 Jeans and T-shirts as the daily uniform.
• 🧥 A light jacket and a hoodie for layering.
• ☂️ A compact umbrella.
• 👟 Comfortable trainers.
• 🩳 Shorts for the warm days in Nevada.

How do you pack for changeable weather on a road trip? Tell us below!