Road Trip, vol. 4

January 12, 1933 The next morning we found ourselves in regular desert country. We ate our breakfast at Odessa. (note: photo to the left is Odessa in the 1930s) While there we were passed by a car from Minnesota, and stopped and talked to them for a few minutes.

We then drove on to Pecos where we stopped for a while and then started for Carlsbad. This was typical desert land with nothing much but cactus and some scrubby brush. We ate our dinner some distance from Pecos and looked the desert over.

We arrived at Carlsbad shortly after dinner and looked around. We visited the museum and saw some very fine arrowheads and fossils of one type or other. We also saw a spring that produced medicinal water at about the rate of 25,000 gallons per hour. The spring was enclosed in a concrete tank with an open top. In places the water could be seen bubbling up from the bottom. The water was of quite good quality, too. We then drove down to a small town near Carlsbad where we camped over night.