I am sure this is old news, but I thought I would post it for those in Texas that don't have time to follow everything on the web.
You can now drive thru the town of Bustamante ( on the main road only ) up to the entrance of the canyon virtually on the internet, using Google Maps. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bustamante,+Nuevo+Leon,+Mexico&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=26.533251,-100.52516&spn=0.050298,0.077162&sll=31.168934,-100.076842&sspn=12.298661,19.753418&oq=Bustamante+Nue&t=h&hnear=Bustamante,+Nuevo+Le%C3%B3n,+Mexico&z=14&layer=c&cbll=26.534663,-100.528917&panoid=4KXfVF0FB-65ETsPCkZP1w&cbp=12,292.12,,1,0.05 On a related note, it will also let you drive through nearly every road of the border towns, except inside of restricted areas like Boystown. ( I haven't heard of any cavers going there in 20 years ) In the fall of 84, I accompanied 5 other inexperienced Aggie cavers to Bustamante. All the knowledge amongst us that we had about Mexico was a crude hand-drawn map in a Texas Caver issue, of the border-town of Nuevo Laredo. Texas cavers today have access to a wealth of information on how to plan their road-trip into Mexico, and additional border-crossings, and better gasoline, than we had. Yet when was the last organized trip to Grutas del Precipico or Minas Viejas by cavers from Texas ? David Locklear --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
