Friday, October 19, 2007
Windmill RV Park, Carlsbad, NM - Oct 14-???
We are parked for a month in Carlsbad, having turned in our lot at the SKP co-op in Lakeside in early June. We're still leaseholders there (a long story). Hopefully, our lot will find new leaseholders before the year is out. We'll see how we enjoy spending our time in Carlsbad. Since we want to play bridge with the club here 4 times a week, we decided it was more cost-effective to avoid a 50-mile round trip each time. We have also found a nice line dancing class at the same senior center where we play bridge.
This location is also closer to Carlsbad Caverns and the Guadalupe Mountains. We visited the Caverns for a drive of their scenic Walnut Canyon Loop, a quick tour of the Big Room, and the evening Bat Flight Program. Neither of us had seen the bats fly out of the cave before, and despite the fact that the numbers are dwindling due to it being time for their annual migration south, it was an awesome sight. It was also interesting to visit the cave again so soon after visiting Wind Cave and Jewel Cave in South Dakota. Carlsbad is the only cave we know of where you can go on a self-guided tour. There is really something special about being able to linger at your own pace and really admire the beauty. Carlsbad is huge in volume but smaller in length (miles of cave) compared to the other two.The cats are happy to be done with traveling for a while. Both Rainbow and Amber have been throwing up more than usual. Hopefully, it is just "hairball season" (spring or fall or whenever the weather is changing from cool to hot or vice versa) and nothing more is wrong. Trixie is again the stable one, with no apparent issues, other than never getting enough attention!
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 1:29 PM 
