Started in Cameron and headed to closest national park excluding the gateway arch which regardless of title is not a park I started at Teddy Roosevelt and did horseshoe north down west coast and back to Cameron after last park Carlsbad Cavern in New Mexico.
Just hit white sands our newest park and the name more than fits although it could be called white hot sands for accuracy’s sake.
Bout 3-4 hours to Carlsbad cavern national park not a bad drive but extremely hot. If you haven’t noticed this is a theme.
Surprisingly to me anyway the place was quite crowded with parking almost full and only spots left were a heatstroke away.
Once in cavern I’d figure out why so crowded. It’s perhaps the only place with a comfortable cool temp. Being that I took bout two hours to go up and down it was comfortable and necessary. I was hoping people would go slower to make it last.
It took a couple + hours and was groovy and cool. Problem is getting out of the cool to the wall of heat.
That’s the last national park on list but as I’m getting older I’ve noticed a fondness for the weather channel mostly because while it’s news and important it’s not the recent truckload of stupid, and the weather in general. One of the Steve’s told bout national weather museum in Oklahoma definitely a place to stop and rather timely considering super El Niño. Apparently they think so as well because they are doubling the size of it and it’s temporarily closed for these renovations.
While depressing my trip is coming to a close and will probably drive straight through to Cameron tomorrow and start cleanup. That’s worst thing about long trip setting up and tearing down. That’s for tomorrow, being another day.
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