She’ll be rising
By the time I make Albuquerque she’ll be working
By the time I make Oklahoma she’ll be sleeping
According to Google, that’s about 14 and a half hours drive. If we take the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents guideline of a 15 minute break every 2 hours of driving, plus a conservative estimate of 1 hour total for food, that takes us to a total journey time of 17 hours 15 minutes (plus the journey from the departure point to Phoenix, which is unspecified).
Assuming she gets up at a reasonable 8am, Isaacs makes it to Albuquerque between 3 and half 3, when she’s at work, then he’s hitting Oklahoma at about 1am or something like that?
Basically the timeline adds up okay is what I’m saying.
Can I have your best estimate of where Gene Pitney saw a welcoming light and stopped to rest for the night, assuming his calculation of his subsequent journey time was accurate?
I think we’d need them to confirm the speed that they were travelling at for the year-long journey before we’d be able to gauge what time had passed on earth in their absence. Seems theoretically sound though.