Trucks, Trains, Airplanes, Cattle and Caverns

We had a good day yesterday sharing Interstate 10 with every truck in the world. Traveling from Las Cruces to Van Horn, TX I had a pleasant interlude (for me) at the War Eagles Air museum in Santa Teresa, NM. It is a really nice museum with many of my favorite planes from WWII and Korea. The P-38 that was there had been a Reno Air Racer and was still glossy black with chrome props. It was very menacing in appearance. They intend to reconfigure it back to the original military color/markings when they come up with $10K for the paint job.
We then journyed through El Paso and all the cattle feed lots (whew!) and on to Van Horn, with a 200 mile long truck convoy just past the Time Zone change. We picked an RV Park that was convenient but was not well thought out on our part. It was next to I-10 and a railroad track. Instead of counting sheep, I counted trucks going by. I lost count at 65,128:) That was in addition to "many" trains that were too difficult to count as they all sort of blended into one giant train. It was sort of like disco music. Once you hit the floor, the songs were just continous without a break.
This morning we decided to go north to Carlsbad Caverns. A really beautiful drive up by the Red Rock mountains and views of El Capitan in the Quadalupe mountain range in our windshield . And no truck traffic or trains! Carlsbad Caverns was quite spectacular although we were both surprised as to how dry it was inside. The 10 year drought and the addition of an elevator and lighting has contributed to less moisture in the caverns. They said that years ago water was added to the pools to improve the effects of the caverns. Still very pretty, however.
I'll add some pics on the next blog. The WiFi here is not very cooperative:(