|
Boring driving from El Paso? You have never been caught in a blizzard near Van Horn, then. BTDT in a 1979 245DL stick. When you are on I-10 some east of Van Horn, look north through the valley and you can see El Capitan.
Take your 965 to Cloudcroft, stay in The Lodge, and have a fine meal in the dining room at evening, so you can watch the sun set over White Sands and the Organ Mountains.
On the way back visit White Sands National Monument, be sure to go in the Visitor Center and read about the forming of the valley, it is rare in that is not one with a river flowing through it.
Drive to Ruidoso, take along "Pat Garret" written by Metzger, or "The Saga of Billy the Kid", and then drive up to Lincoln, NM and walk the paths used in the Lincoln County War. See the John Wayne movie "Chisum" for the Hollywood version.
Drive to Columbus, NM, go out to the the lava beds, but only if your 965 will do the round trip, no help available out there. Likely not even cell phone service.
On your next drive to San Antonio, stop off for a cooling swim at Balmorrhea Park in Toyahvale. They won't let you swim in the part of the pool with the larger fish.
While looking at the terrain around there, remember that folks made that trip 100+ years ago before the invention of toilet paper and paper towels. Also, the ruins of forts, found in the Texas Forts Trail folder, show how the cavalry was stationed around the territory to keep the Apaches and/or Commanches (just behind that hill over there) from scalping travellers.
Last - Did you get flooded? I hope not, but friends say that many places I remember were underwater.
REgards,
Bob
:>)
PS: My 965 gets 20mpg on a week of wife.sig commute (44 miles a day), better if she uses the freeway/toll road. On the highway, like I-10 to Kerrville, gets 26 to 27 mpg. That run is about 250 non-stop miles.
PPS: Buy the book "Why Stop" from a AAA office, or a TexDOT visitor's center. About $20. Lists ALL of the Historical Markers in Texas. Good way to put some live into what are, sometimes, otherwise boring miles. Toyahvale to Ft. Stockton, e.g. Oh, be sure to visit Fort Davis and MacDonald Observatory, too.
|
