Carlsbad Caverns

We've driven about a million miles since Wednesday.

On Thursday we drove almost the whole way across
Arizona into Lordsburg, New Mexico. We went through
a bunch of odd little towns and lots of pretty amazing scenery.
Arizona is mountainy. We spent the night in a carpark behind
a restaurant, after stealing showers from Pilots truck stop.
Thanks Pilot!

On Friday our intention was to drive the whole way from
Lordsburg to the Carlsbad Caverns, also in New Mexico, but
via El Paso, Texas. On the way we drove through a border patrol,
each vehicle is stopped to check for illegals. Third brush with the
law! I've never once been stopped in England!

We did pretty good, and managed to get about 50 miles west
of Carlsbad before we ran out of gas! The highways here are
endless, and we managed to get through half a tank without a
single sign of life. We chugged into an RV park way up in the
Guadalupe Mountains on the last of our fumes.

The sign for the campsite couldn't have come a moment sooner;
a single extra mile and we'd have been camped out on the highway.
We used a payphone to call AAA, and a couple of hours later
we were fueled up! We decided to stay the night, as it was
pretty damned late anyway.

We escaped this morning without paying (again) and made it to
Carlsbad Caverns by 9am this morning. It's in a creepy little town
called Whites City. The kind of place that breeds murderers and
psychos. It's also the windiest place ever, dust storms and tumble
weed keep battering our lovely home!

I decided today is my day off, so we're hooked up in an RV
park recharging our batteries, literally and analogically.
Is that a word?

We went down into the caverns this afternoon. It was cool!
13 degrees in fact. It was impressive, for caverns. Although
there were no blokes sat in rowing boats playing the violin,
like the caverns in Majorca!

We just ate burritos. Feel a bit sick.

Back on the road in the morning. Goody.