Planning an epic road trip.. comments welcome

RandyD · 02-20-2013, 06:30 PM

Day 5
Fort Stockton and the Carlsbad Caverns

The day started with some drizzle in good ol' Junction TX - that lasted about 2 hours as I made my high speed run westward through the barren wasteland of Western Texas.

the posted limit is 80 on that stretch - many people still do only about 70 - hard to understand

I did not spare the gas pedal. Very light traffic - painfully straight and flat road - about 100 miles in between any manmade object like a building... at least the scenery was nice when the clouds finally broke.

I made it to a real old west town called Fort Stockton - they have a bunch of wild west history that I learned at their little museum.

From there - I shot north on another very long very straight very flat road - making excellent time.

On a whim I pulled off the road for about a half hour detour over to Carlsbad Caverns national park - wow glad I did.

I'll post video of the park entrance road - a 7 mile twisty canyon road with awesome views... also some amazing interiors in the caverns themselves... totally worth it.

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RandyD A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Potomac Falls, VA Posts: 2,977 Drives: 2010 370z 7AT Roadst Rep Power: 22	Day 5 Fort Stockton and the Carlsbad Caverns The day started with some drizzle in good ol' Junction TX - that lasted about 2 hours as I made my high speed run westward through the barren wasteland of Western Texas. the posted limit is 80 on that stretch - many people still do only about 70 - hard to understand I did not spare the gas pedal. Very light traffic - painfully straight and flat road - about 100 miles in between any manmade object like a building... at least the scenery was nice when the clouds finally broke. I made it to a real old west town called Fort Stockton - they have a bunch of wild west history that I learned at their little museum. From there - I shot north on another very long very straight very flat road - making excellent time. On a whim I pulled off the road for about a half hour detour over to Carlsbad Caverns national park - wow glad I did. I'll post video of the park entrance road - a 7 mile twisty canyon road with awesome views... also some amazing interiors in the caverns themselves... totally worth it.