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First stop: Carlsbad Caverns! On the drive up to the visitor center, we stopped at a few places to check out the local vegetation. Unfortunately, this was the first hint that there had been a wildfire here recently.
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Me at the visitor center!
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There was a display about White Nose Syndrome. Batman is not pleased!
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We went on the Left Hand Tunnel tour - there was a group of 15 of us and we saw some cool stuff! Here's part of the cavern that's clearly made up of shells (Carlsbad Caverns started out underwater...)
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This is a good example of...dang it, I don't remember. It's not cave popcorn, though - it's much finer than that. And pretty, too!
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A cave pool! The light was such that it was really hard to tell at first whether there was water in it or not. (there was)
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The walls of the cave looked very...cave-y.
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More intricate cave walls.
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David sports his lantern as we head back towards the visitor center. We weren't allowed to take pictures on the way out (we only used lanterns to light the way).
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Me on the same bridge, I think :-)
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More impressive cave formations.
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There were periodically numbers along the walls. Our guide explained that the original surveyors used them to keep track of where they'd been and avoid getting lost.
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The discoloration on the cave wall was caused by bats touching it! The oils on their skin stain the walls just like the ones in human hands do (which is why we didn't touch the walls).
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The Left Hand Tunnel tour was done, and we took a break and went back up to the surface for lunch. Even the elevator was impressive!
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Lunch break! It was a beautiful day outside.
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After lunch, we went back down to the Big Room. Unfortunately, the pictures didn't turn out that well (it's quite dark; was even a bit hard to see), but here are some nice formations.
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This stalagmite was big!
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This stalactite is known as the Lion's Tail. It looked like a miracle that it didn't collapse. Luckily we didn't have to walk under it!
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A stalagmite reaching up to some draperies (in the top middle).
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More stalactites that we didn't walk under.
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After emerging from the Big Room, we walked a bit on a nature trail. These buildings were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and look particularly Southwestern.
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As I mentioned, there had been a wildfire a few months ago, so much of the walk was a bit depressing. This cactus did not fare well.
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I take a break on the nature walk.
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David along the nature walk. You can see the line where the wildfire stopped to his right.
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This awesome sign was a warning before the hike down to the cavern from the surface, which is over a mile and 750 feet(!) down. We took the elevator instead.
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This sign was next to it. It was confusing - by "official cavern guides", does it mean "official cavern audiotours"? That aside, the headphones really added to the sign :-)
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On to Roswell! Our hotel had this newspaper framed in the breakfast area :-)
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This one was right next to the other.
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Our first stop was the International UFO Museum - don't miss the alien head lamppost above David!
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The museum had many exhibits, including this replica of the radio station where an announcement about the Roswell crash was made.
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A diagram of the mysterious symbols supposedly found on an I-beam at the crash site.
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As we were walking through the museum, suddenly we heard a noise and this scene came to life! After the smoke started coming out I ran to get my picture taken with it :-)
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There was a section of newspaper comics and such. I found this one amusing.
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David next to an appropriately marked Coke machine :-)
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The nice lady at the Roswell visitor center took this picture of us.
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After seeing this sign, we had to stop for lunch here!
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There was a small museum at the Roswell airport dedicated to the old army base there (which had been converted to the airport). I thought this poster was pretty neat.
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At a local place I had a bottle of Roswell Alien Amber Ale. It was pretty good!
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It was even brewed in New Mexico!
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At the Roswell Museum and Art Center, I liked this work, which really seemed to jump off of the wall. It's called "Synthetic Reality" by Susan Beiner.
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David liked "The Mountain Brings Us Boats Full Of Lilies, IV" by Ana Maria Hernando. The "flowers" are crocheted petticoats made and worn by women in Mollomarca, Peru. (this was actually in the same room as my favorite work - you can
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At the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, I particularly liked "Five Seasons" by John Dooley. There were five circles like this, and you can see that they're made up of a weather map!
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David was a big fan of "Lincoln Forest" by Don Anderson. Honestly, all of his paintings were nice.
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