ur southwest tour to the International Salon and Spa Expo in Long Beach, CA continues with a vacation day. After the short drive from our hotel in Carlsbad we went to Carlsbad Caverns.
Gene and I have explored many caverns on the east coast in Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Florida ... but none anything like this! There was once a large inland salt sea and the surroundings mountains are remnants of the ancient reefs. The effect of the gases from the oil beneath the caverns created a stronger acid that makes enormous rooms. The great room we explored was the size of 14 football fields combined. I missed seeing the bats, but was not disappointed. This is why the area we drove was a wide flat valley with oil underneath and stark, cave riddled mountains surrounding.The drive across incredibly beautiful country through El Paso to Mesilla where we are today.
In all our enjoyable ramblings we were awakened by a phone call from Mystie, our oldest daughter and Bonika Shears office manager that we had forgotton something important. What could that be? We racked our brains. It was Jay's birthday - our son-in-law and chief sharpener in the Atlanta area. We tried to tell them we had called from the caverns but got no phone reception, but that didn't fly. Now we have to buy him some really cool Rangers stuff in LA for his birthday to make amends.
Drive from Carlsbad to El Paso. Don't look for gas or resaurants on this road. We didn't eat until 3 PM Mountain time. That's 5PM Eastern.
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