We headed south-east through New Mexico towards the Caverns, and experienced the vast openness of this part of the Country. There is literally nothing, for hundreds of miles, nothing. It's beautiful and a little bizarre to go so long without contact with another vehicle.
As we drove through eastern New Mexico, we quickly realized we would be passing directly through Roswell and I got extremely excited about the prospect of an alien encounter. After five hours of nothingness, it is very easy to see why people thought they saw an alien landing. In addition to the sheer boredom people must have felt, the sky can be very powerful here.
Nonetheless we found Roswell to be highly disappointing and failing to really capitalize on their one claim to fame. We did find one little green man to take a picture with before we moved on to the Carlsbad Caverns.
This feeling was quickly supplemented when we left the caverns and drove out into the abandoned roads of South Eastern New Mexico and West Texas in the middle of a lightning storm. not exactly the most comforting drive. We drove into the night with only the lightning as our guide. We searched the radio stations endlessly trying to find weather updates, but were only able to find three types of broadcasts: evangelistic preaching, West Texas High School Football and 70s death metal. We went with the 70s death metal as it felt appropriate with the lightning.
After a restless, night where we were relegated to Sonic Drive-In for dinner we headed on to San Antonio - a garden of Eden compared to the other places we saw in Texas.
***We apologize that there are no food pictures for this leg, however,if you want to know what we ate, simply look for your next Sonic Drive-In commercial.***
Carlsbad Caverns is one of over 300 limestone caves in a fossil reef laid down by an inland sea 250 to 280 million years ago. Driving up to the caverns is not the most pleasant experience but once you are there it is totally worth it. We spent some time exploring the "Big Room" as it is known and marveled in our own insignificance.
This feeling was quickly supplemented when we left the caverns and drove out into the abandoned roads of South Eastern New Mexico and West Texas in the middle of a lightning storm. not exactly the most comforting drive. We drove into the night with only the lightning as our guide. We searched the radio stations endlessly trying to find weather updates, but were only able to find three types of broadcasts: evangelistic preaching, West Texas High School Football and 70s death metal. We went with the 70s death metal as it felt appropriate with the lightning.
We finally arrived in Fort Stockton, Texas, the first thing you see after nothing for three hours, and parked ourselves at the Days Inn for the evening. We carefully pulled the car into the parking spot backwards so as to hide our USC license plate frame as the lot was full of some sure fire Texas boys who may not have appreciated our Alma Mater.
After a restless, night where we were relegated to Sonic Drive-In for dinner we headed on to San Antonio - a garden of Eden compared to the other places we saw in Texas.
***We apologize that there are no food pictures for this leg, however,if you want to know what we ate, simply look for your next Sonic Drive-In commercial.***
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