Texas Bound

Meeting at the LZ wasn’t too hard at 5:30, seems like after 4:30 I couldn’t sleep any longer anyway. Arriving at the LZ Greg, Phil and Shawn were already loading up. We were on the road by 6:30. Overall the trip went pretty well. It took 17 hours pretty much on the dot. We kept our stops short when we gassed up.

Along the way we had marine layer until we got to the banning pass, sunshine until Arizona, cloudy and isolated thunderstorms from East Arizona to Midland Texas. Nearly all of southern New Mexico looked like a lake. There was standing water everywhere. Some of the places where there would normally be dry lakes looked like they were about 5 feet in water.

As we approached Las Cuches New Mexico the sky was really dark with towering cu-nimbs. Chris Smith called and said we may want to consider detouring around El Paso because the authorities were considering closing the 10 freeway due to a possibility that a local dam may break because of all the recent rain they accumulated since late July. I jumped on the internet with the Palm and got the information and the phone number to DOT Texas road conditions and determined we could continue on for now since the rain was letting up for now and the El Paso city officials just had recently given the all clear for those people that had been evacuated.


The rest of the trip was a bit rainy but no downpours. We pulled into the Super8 (now the Whitten Inn) right at 11:30 California time). Chris and Jonny were still up (of course). They came over and greeted us before we settled in for the night.