So…fall semester was a shitshow, and the guy and I were pretty excited to spend the holidays in New Mexico once it was all over. While we were down there, we took a couple of days for ourselves and went on a little road trip through the state to see some of it’s well-known sights. The trip was delayed a couple of days after Winter Storm Goliath dropped over a foot of snow on much of our planned route, and four days post-storm, we headed out into the snowy desert cloaked in dense freezing fog.
We visited San Acacia, World’s Largest Pistachio, White Sands National Monument, and the Mexican Canyon Railroad Trestle on Day 1, before spending the night in a seedy-ass hotel in Carlsbad.
Day 2 was when shit got real. We spent the day at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, which was the highlight of our trip. Kevin has hyped the caverns to me for years, and I just didn’t get the hype. But I was definitely open to descending hundreds of feet underground to check it out.
Lesson of the day: sometimes I’m a real asshole. Carlsbad Caverns rules, and the hype is definitely deserved. The adventure begins when you descend 750 feet into the earth along a steep and windy path. The cave formations the park is famous for begin as soon as you step inside, and they’re everywhere you look throughout your entire experience. I was awestruck.
The Earth does crazy things, friends. Don’t underestimate it’s beauty and wonder.
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