White City, United States

... We asked the man with the flag how to detour around the fire to get to Crater Lake and he said "go back to I-5 and take it to White City and go in from the South".  We backtracked the 59 miles and got to our Hotel in White City too late to go the 75 ...

Up early today, and spent the day driving through Oregon. On to Northern California tomorrow.

From Roswell, we headed southwest to Carlsbad Caverns. This is the place where thousands of bats come out every evening for food. Each night during the summer, you can sit in the amphitheater right outside the entrance to the cavern and watch the bats ...