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.