Time for another road trip once again, and we'll be on the road for 2 and a half days, covering 1249 miles. This means we'll be moving at 62.7 miles per hour, which will allow us to net 502 miles a day. I think this may also be the greatest change in elevation from beginning to end. Let's go ahead and plummet.

DAY ONE


The first day of travel is through a dusty part of the world, but frankly will not be all that dusty. Disturbances and monsoonal flow over New Mexico will have moistened the dirt in southern Colorado, northeastern New Mexico, and to a lesser extent, western Texas. Any rain that we will see on Sunday will be in New Mexico, but it will not be widespread if we see it at all. We'll get off the beaten path quite a bit on this day, and will end up in Acme, Texas after our first day of driving, which is in between Childress and Quanah, if you know where either of those cities are.

DAY TWO
The second day of travel will take us into greener country. Greener and muggier. We'll get out of the plains of north Texas and move into the Big Piney Woods of east Texas before hitting Shreveport and turning south. Monday will end in Zimmerman, Louisiana, about three hours out of our destination in New Orleans. A combination of a ridge over the center of the country and seabreeze forcing will trigger some showers over northern Texas as we wake up, and then later as we arrive in Zimmerman, where some showers and storms are possible late in the day.

DAY THREE
In the summer, there is typically a lack of flow changes in the Gulf Coast. Cold air simply can't be cycled far enough to the south. Southern Louisiana then sees bubbly air mass thunderstorms pretty much all day. That being said, a low over the Gulf Stream is looking to drive air south and off the coast. All this adds up to a nice, pleasant (for summer in New Orleans) arrival.


Directions from Colorado Springs to New Orleans

 

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