More variations to the driving plan today after we got further yesterday than planned. First we back-tracked a little to visit Carlsbad Caverns National Park, about 20 miles from Carlsbad. After driving the flat countryside we headed off the main road into a rare hilly region and the road twisted […]
We have actually made it a bit further than planned today – moving from Texas into New Mexico we gained an hour again so we decided to use it and go on to Carlsbad, New Mexico. It is about 90 miles north west of Pecos – our original intended stop […]
After a disturbed night – a “girls weekend” or similar were staying in the room across the hall from us and after loudly leaving to go out about 8.30pm, came back with a few too many under the belt about 2am – 10 times as loaded ! – the weather […]
Texas really is a big place ! Along the interstates, all the exits are marked by the mileage from border to border. So, for example, exit 5 would be 5 miles from the border, starting from the west. As we are travelling east to west, the first exits we get […]
Today has pretty much been spent visiting NASA headquarters – the Johnson Space Center, Houston. This is “mission control” for the US space program and having visited Cape Canaveral in Florida during our visit in 2008 to see the launch site, we were really keen to see mission control. Johnson […]
