Driftwood Motel Carlsbad

844 S. Canal Street, (Formerly Driftwood Motel) Carlsbad, New Mexico, 88220, United States

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Some of the Caverns were familiar

A travel blog entry by wmaxtman

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... fact that Karen (Wayne's sister) and Mark Hagel came down to visit us and we went to Carlsbad Caverns National Park and White Sands National Monument.We do have some pictures from the trip but it still seemed like a new experience and that's a good thing in my opinion! Wayne remembers that we went back the following morning to see the bats re-enter the Cave after being out eating bugs for the night.
We decided to walk in the ...

Carlsbad - a great place to retire!

A travel blog entry by catndeano

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... We were escorted outside and told to wait by the wall, (almost felt like we were going to be shot), while the Ranger disappeared into a room and then came out with a little spray bottle. We removed our boots and she cleaned the bottoms of them. This process took about 10minutes. We were then allowed to put our boots back on, (by then our feet were very cold) and enter the caverns. At least we were thanked for being honest. We ...

Spelunking

A travel blog entry by linusvpelt

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I signed us up for a 10:00 am caving tour. So after making the kids choke down breakfast in less than ten minutes we were off. The directions on my reservations were not very good so we thought we had to go to the main cavern to pick up tickets. Ended up we went about 30 min out of our way and should have gone directly to Slaughter Canyon Cave. Yes Slaughter Canyon, sounds fun huh. The hike up was really rough but I was glad to see Christa ...

The adventure continues

A travel blog entry by linusvpelt

12

... the Organ mountians. Saw a huge storm over the town of White Sands about 10 miles away. We went to White Sands National Park in the afternoon. That was neat, we purchased the saucer sled to go sand sledding. It was raining a bit while we were there, In fact we drove through a huge storm just before getting to WSNP. The storm was impressive, you could see it start abruptly and end abruptly. After WSNP we drove East through ...

No Turning Back!

A travel blog entry by amelisheva

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... told me that if you want to see what man made, head east, 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 your fears. Get over your hill and see what you find there, With grace in your heart and flowers in your hair. -Mumford & ...

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