I missed the deer comment and should have known that it wasn't for elk, as I recall you saying you had like 20 PPs for elk. Hard to believe you could get there in that amount of time from north of Dallas with very little if any freeway going nw up toward Trinidad! In fact, MapQuest shows it's 10 hours give or take a few minutes, but that still is really an easy day's drive and less than I go on my first day heading to Wyoming from up here!