Day 2

Today we departed early in the morning after just over 4 hours of sleep from Holbrook, AZ. We were on the road by 7am on our way to destination No. 1, Carlsbad Caverns! We stopped to take a better picture of the New Mexico state line, and the only other stops we made were fuel stops and one rest stop to make sandwiches. Traffic was subtle all the way up to Glen's (Megan's Dad) most looked-forward-to stop: Roswell NM. In fact, he was saying that traffic should be slim to none up to Roswell as long as the slow cars in front of us would get abducted at the right times. (Bless his heart). We stopped at a Conoco and Glen picked up a couple alien souvenirs from the extra-terrestrial hotspot. We topped off the tank, and were on our way to Carlsbad. We wanted to get to the Caverns visitors center by 5pm, being the time when they permit the last entrance into the caverns, and we burst through the front doors only to realize that it was 5:05, five minutes too late. BUMMER! SO we decided that we would stay the night in Carlsbad, to hit the Caverns in the morning. Day 2 is down and in the books; tomorrow, we plan to hit Little Rock, AK, which is going to be our longest day journey yet at around 700 miles. Woohoo!