Travel Blogs from Carlsbad, United States
So Awwwful!!!!!
Dirty hair and stain ridden sheets (slept on the surface of somforter with t shirts on the top so i didnt have to touch any part of the nasty bed), Hair clumps in shower drain overflowed on my feet!!! so gorss ...
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Carlsbad, New Mexico, has some of the prettiest underground cavers I have ever seen. This is a national park and consists of an extensive cavern system. It takes about an hour to walk through and see all the interesting formations. The caverns are ...
Grande south swell
Mile 0.0 Carlsbad, California Our plans of leaving this week for Madtown were delayed by...beautiful blessed SoCal fall weather mixed in with seting up the laptops for our journey, tying up loose ends & the biggest south swell of the year! For the first ...
A great day for caving
... back to fetch a water before we went on our 2nd tour of the day. Our next tour was the Natural Entrance. This is where Carlsbad Caverns was discovered and where most people entered the cave before the elevator was built. This is where the bats come out a ...
This is it!! The start of my Trip!!
Ok, this is my BIG vacation. I'm going to start at Coletta's desk in the other room, and travel to MY desk, at the other side of my building. Wish me luck!! Here goes!.... see ya on the flip side!! ...
Day 13 Carlsbad Caverns
... at Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico It was a beautiful sunny morning, about 70 degrees but extremely windy. We drove to Carlsbad Caverns through some incredible scenery, which took about 20 minutes. You'll see in the pictures that we climbed ...
Carlsbad Ntional Park
Today I left early, well early for me, and headed directly to Carlsbad Caverns in the Guadalupe Mountain Range, just a 30 minute drive away. The national park road was a two lane road up the mountain with lots of twist and turns and ...
We're off!!
... in a pocket when you're doing laundry - like I'm getting something extra. So today we left for 5 weeks - Austin to Carlsbad (where we are now); tomorrow we'll be in Santa Fe with Carlota. Saturday we'll go to Colorado , spend a few ...
Lego-Mania
... to spend and everyone left happy. After a short time back in the hotel and thawing out, we headed out towards downtown Carlsbad for dinner. My first choice was a place called Pizza Port, a pizzeria recommended by a co-worker who used to live in the ...
Een tarantula, een ratelslang en vleermuizen
Rond het middaguur komen we bij de Carlsbed Caverns aan: een Nationaal Park in de bergen van New Mexico, vooral bekend om de grotten met alle stalactieten en stalagmieten en de vele duizenden Guana (New Mexican) vleermuizen die er wonen. Terwijl de ...
Carlsbad
... Carlsbad, just north of San Diego. Not much to report as I didn't stop anywhere but route took me through Malibu, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, Long Beach & Laguna Beach Just after leaving Carlsbad, stopped off at the beach at Torrey Pines State Park ...
Deserted
... and witnessed it actually raining in the desert; not a usual sight apparently. Before leaving for Tombstone we went to Carlsbad Caverns, some incredibly amazing caves and national park. It definately felt like we were in Mexico (New Mexico) because of ...
Legoland and Seaworld
Mum is too sad to write this entry now. She lost the camera with all our Legoland and Seaworld pictures. More later. ...
The Famous Carlsbad Caverns!
Today Kristen and I traveled 30 minutes to the entrance of Carlsbad Caverns. Neither of us had been to this amazing cave system and I was looking forward to it as one of the main highlights of the trip. We took the one hour self-guided tour of ...
Getting ready for take off
We leave in 3 days. There is so much to do...packing, packing, packing and prepping the house for the ...
Carlsbad Caverns
When I got there, I chose to walk via the natural entrance, rather than take the elevator, and I descended down 750 ft (the equivalent of a 75 story building) into the earth. From even before I began my descent, I was in awe at the massive, gaping abyss ...
Travel is not getting in the way of caving
I was home for less than a week before I headed off to Carlsbad for some caving. I've spent more time this month in Carlsbad than at my house. I went to a tick infested cave, a cave in Los Alamos, Cincinatti for a BOG meeting and Bells beer, ...
Taking the first step...
Susan and the kids had a late start but aim to make it to Flagstaff Arizona by the day's end. The maps are handy, snacks at the ready and the clicking counter device Great Father gave the kids is going to be used instead by Susan to count that ...
Losing track of the weeks - CARLSBAD YEAH!!
... gear to go bodyboarding including some swim-fins that were too big and a board that was more of a beach boogie-board! Carlsbad week highlights: Disneyland!! – Drove back up to Anaheim near LA. The day was supposedly ‘quiet’ but the ...
No Turning Back!
... but if you want to see what God made, head west. Nice thought to ponder while resting from the first part of this. Up next, Carlsbad Caverns. And there'll come a time, you'll see, with no more tears. And love will not break your heart, but dimiss ...
BBQ Pit Diner
... there was a lot of Police on the roads, there were also a lot of those Border patrol checks with the lights. Closer to Carlsbad caves we passed beside a Missile testing area !!!! Right beside the road, there was also a property for sale right beside ...
Off The Beaten Path
... by Germans and most of the streets are German and the local bakery had German pastries. After leaving Fredericksburg, we headed for Carlsbad, New Mexico. We got to our RV park by noon on Wednesday and spent the afternoon catching up on wash, ...
Arival at last!
this place was so tight!!!! I love the 'club house' easily fits 25 people, and there's more than enough to do around there. It was awesome seeing all the family! for those who showed up that is ...
Lego, Lego & more Lego at Legoland
Today is the day we get to experience driving in USA for the 1st time. Luckily we only have to pick the car up down the road and most of the driving is on the freeway. Yep, that is actually a good thing. After picking up the car at 8.30, we jump on ...
The Bat Cave
... it down the next morning. All in all, Balmorhea basically turned out to be a dud. So I just drove straight through to Carlsbad. Again, AAA is basically worthless. I told them I wanted to go to Carlsbad Caverns and they only led me to the outskirts ...
Legoland
... . It suddenly started raining and when the clouds came in, I lost the hotspot. So we packed up and drove down to Carlsbad for a day at Legoland. The weather cooperated but was still a chilly 60-65 degrees all day with spots of drizzle. ...
Its Freezing!!!
Travelled about 256 km. Before we head to Carlsbad Cavern, we stopped at the grave of Buddy Holly! (Hmm whos idea was it?!?) ,) It is just a small "private" grave with a flat stone. It took us nearly 15 minutes driving around the cemetery to find his ...
a visit to Roswell and yet another Walmart
... here though the wind is relentless and stops us from setting up a tent so once again we are at a super 8...but I digress. Carlsbad is a fairly good size city supported in part by the air force base and to a large extent by the ever-flowing ...
Day 40
Really lazy day today...Sarge didn't get up till 9:30 am...I at least was up at 7:30. A really beautiful day high 67 and sunny. We did laundry again feels like that s all I do every 3-4 days. Guess it feels like a lot because we have to ...

