Heading to IL

Day started out good, up early and finishing packing the car.  The people who were left stopped by to say farewell for the season.  We got a 10 am start and made good time.  Stopped at a rest area just between Lordsberg and Deming, NM for a lunch of fried egg sandwiches with bacon. Not far down the road, almost to Deming we spotted black smoke ahead of us.  We took a few pictures as we were approaching but ended up stopping about a quarter mile before the fire.  It seemed like it took forever before the fire department and police to arrived.  An hour and a half later as we passed the semi trailer 3/4 gone and still smoldering, I could tell it had been carrying mattresses.  The trip north to Socorro, NM where we're spending the night, went without a hitch.