Travel Blogs from Carlsbad, United States
Down to the Bowels of Hell!
... the campgrounds I've been in lately. During the final part of my drive, especially when I had to drive completely through Carlsbad, I was thinking of skipping the caverns and taking a breather from touring. After setting up at the campground I check my ...
Spelunking
I woke up at 8AM and visited Carlsbad Caverns National Park. On the drive in I saw a giant tarantula crossing the road. When I arrived at the park I hiked a mile down into the cave to a depth of 750 feet below the surface. It was great ...
The Neatest Cave in The World
We went to Carlsbad Caverns. It is a National Park in New Mexico. We went down below ground. It is 59 degrees all year round in the cave. I was ahead of Mamaw and Papaw all the whole time. I earned a Junior Ranger ...
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Carlsbad Caverns was beautiful. I liked the dark, hushed atmosphere. We enjoyed the King's Palace tour and did both of the self-guided walking tours of the Natural Entrance and the Big Room. When the tour guide turned out the lights to let us experience ...
Off to the caverns
... pool noodle in the middle of the water. There were 2 more just wandering down the road on our way back to our cabin. We had decided last night not to tent camp. We had moved into a nice cabin for the night. The visit to Carlsbad has been ...
Finally Leaving Texas
... ever had which we eat hastily in the dark. The following morning we make a short drive up to New Mexico to visit Carlsbad Caverns. While the previous day we had been ascending up the Guadalupe Mountains, today we will be making our way down into ...
Grams n' Gramps
Well I finally made it off the island. I am officially "on vacation," or whatever you want to call it. Staying with grandma and grandpa has been great. I feel like I've never really gotten to spend any time with them 1 on 2, and this ...
Carlsbad
... heiße Wüste und Palm Springs im Rückspiegel, kommen uns die 35 Grad in San Diegos top-notch Vorstädtchen Carlsbad regelrecht angenehm vor. In Vorbereitung auf den Independence Day stehen in unserem traumhaften Resort zwei Tage pure Erholung an: Pool, ...
Guadalupe Mountains/Carlsbad Caverns
... . We initially planned to spend several days in Lincoln National Forest, however, after walking the Natural Cave Entrance route of Carlsbad Caverns (amazing!), we were spent and decided on a motel stay in town instead. Hot showers, a bed, and ...
Day 11
2010 U.S. Road Trip – Day 11 - 6/29/2010 – Destination Carlsbad, NM We actually got an early start today. The high only reached into the low 80's and there were instances where the temperature dipped below 70. We traveled through west Texas ...
'Carlsbad Caverns'
... caverns in Carlsbad and it was even more impressive than we thought.(at first I thought Kelly said we were going to the 'Carlsbad Taverns' and I was pretty excited) But when I learned it was actually the Caverns and this was the place where they filmed ...
Carlsbad
Carlsbad Nach kurzem Beraten in LA beschlossen wir die letzten Tage in den USA im warmen Sueden und am Meer zu verbringen! Also fuhren wir gemuetlich gegen Sueden, Endziel waere Pacific Beach, dass wir ja schon von unserem ersten Besuch in San Diego ...
Day 8 & 9: Carlsbad Caverns National Park
... going to start this entry backwards because after two days of intermittent showers my brain has gone soggy. We set off for the Carlsbad Caverns from our campground after Matt got the lowdown from a fellow camper or two at breakfast - all guided tours ...
aka - "Carl is bad", New Mex
... you do if you live in Texas, but need to meet someone in New Mex, which time range do you use to schedule appointments?? Carlsbad doesn't really have anything to offer, that is why we dubbed it "Carl is bad", their one claim to fame are the Carlsbad ...
The Odyssey from Oxnard to Carlsbad Caverns
... in Juarez, so that made it worthwhile. We left El Paso Monday afternoon, and took a sort of side trip into New Mexico to Carlsbad. Neither of us had been to the Carlsbad Caverns before, so we decide to make the detour off Hwy I-10. The next morning ...
White Sands and Christmas Lights
... the Pecos - a festive light display on the Pecos River, viewed only by boat. It was fantastic. The natives of Carlsbad really get into it. The best part - the real meaning of Christmas got just as much airplay as the commercialism that ...
Slowing down a bit
... stretch of road that led to the small, sad town of Hope, NM (hopeless)...all boarded up. Eventually the 82 E. took us to Carlsbad. We easily found the Pecos River RV Park where I had made our only reservation...it was easy to find because it was ...
Great relaxing night in Carlsbad ..by Geet
... to Karan's cousin as the studio was about to close. We all sat back in the car filled up the gas a started going towards Carlsbad which was around 2 hours away from universal. Kunal drove us till her house. As soon as we went there we were welcomed by ...
Not so Bad Carl
... you would walk through an ampitheater to get into a cavern? Well the answer is there is something very special that happens in Carlsbad in the summer...Bats. Every night just before dawn thousand upon thousand of them come swarming out to feed on ...
The Burros of Carrizozo
... bad. This has only happened once before in my life, when my brother Larry and I, on a camping trip through the Western United States taken in our twenties, cooked up some pancakes one morning that tasted like rubber. I just kept eating them ...
Carlsbad Stopover
So after whale watching ended we made the short drive north to Carlsbad for a stopover. We arrived just in time for sunset. After a long day of whale watching and driving we decided that it was time for some pizza and beer. We found just the place to make ...
Calrsbad
In Santa Barbara war ich mal wieder aufer Suche nach nem Zeltplatz, als ich hinter all den Villen ein nettes Plaetzchen fand um mein Zelt aufzustellen. Gesagt getan, man fragt, betreibt ein bisschen Small talk, und steht schon im eigenen Schlafzimmer mit ...
Heaven and Earth in New Mexico
... For those of you who did not know, the Gadsden Purchase gave the southernmost 30 miles of New Mexico and Arizona to the United States in 1859, allowing a southern railway route to be established. We stayed at the Happy Trails B&B (Kirsten's ...
Driving down to San Diego
From our travels Cambodia and America are the only two countries that have something in common. Power cuts. Yes we woke today to a powercut and apparently these happen all the time in California just like Phomn Penn!! and here we were thinking we were ...
Desert drive thru Roswell
Meeting an 8 am departure of the Cog Wheel Train that climbs to the summit of Pikes Peak meant another early morning. We made it to the station with about 15 minutes to spare. The ride up was steep (25% grade) but spectacular. Walking around on the ...
Carlsbad caverns
... store and bought boots and a more serious sleeping bag.. Then I had a really wonderful ride up state route 54 from Van Horn to Carlsbad.. There was a sign when I left I 10 that the next gas station was 62 miles... I drove 52 miles before I saw a car ...
Here Kitty Kitty
... . It was a glorious hike (see photos) with temps in the 40's and very little wind which is unusual. Afterwards, we headed to Carlsbad Caverns which for some reason we had set fairly low expectations. I think we both believed once you have seen a cave, ...

