I digress as I must start back at the beginning of this big adventure. We left at 6:18 a.m. on the morning of Dec. 30. Holy Moly, seems like a year ago already that we loaded the rocket ship and blasted off for the retirement camp. What an adventure! We were due in Albuquerque to visit friends we had not seen for 25 years. How fun to reconnect with old friendships! A little before noon, our friend called to say that we should turn south, due to the snowstorms moving through NM. So at Strafford, TX, we turned south off of Hwy 54 to drive through Amarillo and then Lubbock, TX. Hopefully, we'll stop to see the friends on the return trip home.
Very different terrain from KS although some areas were similar to the Flint Hills and the plains of KS. Huge bales of cotton were sitting in the fields as we drove further and further south. Then we passed cotton gins with huge mounds of cotton sitting and waiting to be processed. Interesting sites for these KS kids. We turned off at Lubbock towards the SW corner of NM and stayed the night at Artisa, NM. Our plan was to visit Carlsbad Caverns the next day.
So the next morning we started south for Carlsbad, NM. The gas attendant at Carlsbad told me of a short cut through El Paso--he said that it's easy to get lost in El Paso. Oh my ---how lucky that I found out of this short cut. So --we load back up with a full tank to go find the caves. . . this should be fun! Maybe I might like this retirement gig yet.
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