Hi, folks.

We started our day off with a visit to Carlsbad Caverns National Park.  We visited CCNP a little over 12 years ago (December of 1999), and really, nothing has changed.  We hiked in through the natural entrance, which I highly  recommend.  The cave is beautiful, and immense.  Here are some photos.  That’s me in the first photo, descending into the natural entrance.

The first one here is Rich in the ‘stand behind it and stick your head through’ photo op, and the second is the obligatory ‘photo with the national park sign’ picture.

After the caverns, we headed for Texas, making a stop at the Pizza Inn in Carlsbad.  The pizza was great.  I am glad we stopped.

We drove to Barstow, TX (just outside Pecos).  It’s a ghost town with people living in it still.  There are some great historic buildings.  We took lots of photos, but the light wasn’t great, and the Ward County Bank was the best building.  Here it is.

Intending to camp, we headed for Balmorhea, TX.  We got there after dark, and it was starting to sprinkle, so we got a room at The Eleven Inn.  It’s cheap, and small…but it’s an adventure, right?!  On the way toward Balmorhea, we stopped to take pictures of the sunset behind the Davis mountains, and while we were parked on the side of the road, some horses came charging across a field to us, and there was no fence.  They came close, but not too close, and looked us over, then galloped off.

We are here right now, and will be visiting the Balmorhea State Park in the morning.  There are birds there, I’ve been told. 

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