Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
Today we got up at 6:15 we got some breakfast from the hotel. I had biscuits and gravy.😋 Then we drove 45 to carlsbad caves. When we got there we got our tickets for our 8:30 cave tour. We started talking about safety and getting our gear like helmet and gloves. Then left for the […]
Read More Day 8 and we went inside a cave witch was very fun and cool 😎“‘Cause I need freedom now and I need to know how; To live my life as it’s meant to be” – Mumford & Sons We must have hit the part of the trip where we all need a little down time. As soon as we arrived at our hotel in Alamogordo, NM we decided that […]
Read More The CaveBefore I start on today Ellie and I would love to see and reply your comments and we can only do so if you comment on The Blog rather than on Facebook. My mom and dad won’t let me have Facebook yet. This morning when we woke up we got ready for a cave. We […]
Read More In a Cave“She’s touring the facilities” – Cake We completed our tour of Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas today! I’m the last person to write today, so I’ve already read what the girls have written and I think I need to clarify my attitude toward today’s hike. As I’ve written all along my biggest concern […]
Read More Short Skirt / Long JacketToday we got up at 5:45 and grabbed some breakfast for the car. Then we drove to Guadalupe natanal park. When we got there we went to the visitor center. We went to the bathroom 🚻💩 and then were off TO THE TOP OF A MOUNTAIN. It was easy when we started which felt 👍good. […]
Read More Day 7 and we climbed our first mountain of the trip. B-)Today our alarms went off at 5:30. As we rolled out of bed half awake at 5:45 we all knew this was going to be a fun day. Although it was no UFO Museum, it was amazing. Probably even better (if that it possible) than the UFO Museum. We got on the trail not knowing […]
Read More Our First Mountain of the Trip!!The sense of pride and exhaustion is so great from us all right now. We climbed to the top, and down from the top, of the tallest mountain in Texas, Guadalupe Peak. This hike was almost 9 miles round trip, 3,000 feet of elevation gain and loss, and took us about 6 hours. More importantly […]
Read More Day 7: Guadalupe Peak“I’m on my way; Driving at ninety down those country lanes; Singing to ‘Tiny Dance’” – Ed Sheeran With only one NPS site on the agenda for today it seems like it should have been a low key day. Since that one site had a visitor’s center as well as three other units and we […]
Read More Castle on the HillToday the rest of my family got up at 6:00 but I slept in until 6:30. After we were all up and ready. We drove off to three mission nation monument. When first got there we watched the 14 minute film because the ruins were not open yet. Then we drove to the first stop […]
Read More Day 6 and we did a lot of driving and we also saw a lot ruins.This day could be described as the perfect cross country road trip day. We did a little National Park stuff, a lot of beautiful driving, and two quirky gems. I’ve learned so much about the Ancestrial Puebloans and the Spanish missionaries in the 1600s in New Mexico. This was a topic in history I knew […]
Read More Day 6: Salinas Pueblo Missions, Smoky Bear Memorial, and Roswell International UFO Museum and Research Center