Day 32 - Our House

After spending almost a week in Texas we knew we had to hit up a new state. New Mexico is just west of Texas and our next stop was Carlsbad, New Mexico. Carlsbad is home to Carlsbad Caverns, which is world famous for the different stalactites and stalagmite formations 750 ft underground.

We didn’t get into Carlsbad National Park until after 5 but we weren’t planning on seeing the caverns until the next morning. We had to hurry though. It was getting dark and we needed to set up our tent for camping. The large difference this time was that we were doing “back country” camping. This means we had to hike to our campsite and essentially pick our own campsite wherever we could find a flat piece of land. The hike was not easy to say the least to get there. We had probably gone up and down rock filled hills (verging on mountings) for about a half-mile.

Where we chose to camp was relatively flat with little rocks. It was the best we could find without moving forward any more. We were the only ones camping that night so we didn’t see anyone around. There was no cell phone service. We were officially isolated. The scenery was gorgeous. It can’t even be describe in words. Here’s a picture of what it looked like.

Even though we were really “roughing it” I did bring my laptop with me to watch some TV episodes to help pass the time. It got really dark and we headed to sleep.

Aramis

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