Carlsbad, NM to San Angelo, TX
With promises that we would go to Big Bend National Park in southern Texas during a cooler time of the year, we headed into the heart of Texas, leaving Carlsbad, NM, and our questionable motel room, nice and early. Our plan was to stay the night in San Angelo, TX, but following a phone conversation with Greg Stahl we learned that San Angelo was only 3 hours away from Austin. Nuvi was telling us that we would reach San Angelo at 1 pm MT, which meant that we could be in Austin by 5 pm CT. We decided to push through, stopping only for gas, Big Red (my first experience with this delicious strawberry-like flavored soda), and Dairy Queen...twice, once for lunch, once for desert later in the afternoon. We actually reached Tara's parents at 5:30 CT, just in time to get cleaned up and head out for a big family dinner at Flores with her parents, sister, a handful of aunts and uncles, and a multitude of cousins. Relaxed by the excellent food and tasty margaritas, we settled in to the room that would be home for the next 2 weeks consecutively, a rarity to be enjoyed following this lengthy leg of our summer journey.
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