Friday, February 16, 2007

snowbound

Snow kept me from getting out of New Mexico Tuesday night. I pulled over in Carlsbad. On the plus side, it gave me the opportunity to see the caverns. On the minus side, I drove only about 275 out of the 750 miles to Austin that day, and I had hoped to try to make it at least halfway.

The next morning, I drove down to the caverns, only to be turned back, as the road in the park to the caverns was covered in ice, and would be closed for a couple more hours. That didn't leave me enough time to wait for them to open, check them out (which takes about 3 hours), then drive to Austin in order to arrive at a reasonable hour.

In hindsight, staying in Carlsbad was a good thing. It was the biggest town I passed through before I hit Austin.

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