New Mexico

Carlsbad caverns

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Carlsbad caverns were found in the late 1800s when a rancher was investigating a fire. The smoke turned out to be bats leaving the cave. It  became a park in  the 1930s. It was ranger Joseph’s 3rd tour so he wasn’t polished but we got all the typical cave tour highlights: drapes, straws, stalagmites and tights, cave bacon, popcorn, bats and blackouts. I think the cool thing is the big room. It’s 4000 feet long and over 600 feet wide with lots of features. Only 5% of the cave is still growing. We are heading towards hot springs np today, a lot of driving.

Bottomless lake State Park
Can u see a 🐶?
Drapes
Tight  & might

White Sands National Monument

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We got stopped by border control randomly mid New Mexico. They took one look at our camper piled with bikes guitars and a doodle and waved us on.

White sands was pretty cool. We  watched the beloved park video then took a nice couple of short walks. 

Fast fact: white sands is home to the oldest human footprints in North America. Link to ancient footprint info:21000 year old feetsies

Then we went to Three Rivers Petroglyph site which has the largest concentration of petroglyphs in the southwest. 21000+ I narrowed it down to my favorites, but there are a lot of shots.

For the record, I decided that this was either a game that they played like a scavenger hunt at a birthday party or an Easter egg hunt type of thing … Or perhaps it was more like getting tagged and each one of these symbols is somebody’s sign. Either way. It’s super cool 1500 years later.

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Leasburg Dam Las Cruces NM

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We have spent the last two nights at Las Cruces. We arrived late the first night, but had all day yesterday to explore and have some much needed idle time. Each site has their own pavilion perfect for playing guitar

We spent the morning on the pine tree trail in the organ mountain desert peaks national monument. Nice four mile hike. The pine trees have a really nice bark  pattern.

We had picnic lunch at the base of organ mountains and went back to the campground to play some music and relax. We did take a short walk to the Rio (not-so) Grande. (this-time-of-year)