Spring Camping

On Monday afternoon, my brother Zarek, his friend Kyle, and Lucky and I all headed down to Alamogordo. We camped at Oliver Lee State Park. In the morning, we hiked up the Dog Canyon Trail. It was quite warm! The view was spectacular. We saw some beautiful and unique cacti.

Later that day, we went to Whitesands National Monument. Endless dunes of pure white sand just never get boring. From there, we drove east toward Carlsbad - after you get over the Sacramento Mountains, it is the most boring drive ever. We camped at Brantley Lake State Park. The sunset was spectacular. After dinner, I made the famous "camping peach cobbler". It was gooooood! Lucky the dog watching over the drying fly sheet.

In the morning, we drove down to Carlsbad Caverns. We did two tours - the Natural Entrance Tour and the Big Room tour. They were both cool.

The Natural Entrance - how nice of God to make such convenient paved switchbacks into the cave.

A stalagmite (of which there were many)SpeleothermsThe biggest speleotherms When we were done at the Caverns, we drove up to Roswell to Bottomless Lakes State Park (the coolest place we stayed the whole trip). I don't know how the lakes are formed, but there were several little lakes about three quarters enclosed by rocky cliffs. So we had our own lake all to ourselves. Lucky was tired from the trip. Again, we couldn't complain about the sunset. In the morning, Kyle had to do something to his truck in Roswell, so we just walked around for a couple of hours. What a cooky town. Here I am in front of the UFO museum.

And yes, such a thing not only exists but flourishes in the town of Roswell. So all in all, I can say that we saw several "otherwordly" things on our trip - whitesands, wierd cave formations, odd lakes, and ALIENS!