Since this is the chileheads list, I'm voting for Las Cruces/El Paso. You might want to take a little time and drive down the Mesilla valley between the two and check out the chile field and pecan groves. Of course the fields will be all finished, but you can get some nice dried chiles in the area. Secondly, oddly enough traffic from Dallas to Austin can be a bear. David "Zeb" Cook At 09:24 AM 9/25/02 -0700, John Whalen wrote: > Now I get confused as to whether we should go through Amarillo and Oklahoma >City then cut down and travel through Dallas, or go through Las Cruces, El >Paso and San Antonio before heading to Houston and Texas City. > John, Effy and "Baby Chile" Whalen