We left El Paso this morning and three and a third hours later we arrived at our next site, which we thought was in Carlsbad, but instead was 16-18 miles north, in a place called Seven Rivers, even though the campground is named the Carlsbad KOA. Unfortunately that puts us 55 minutes NORTH of the caverns.
We drove along the Texas Mountain Trail, which had us cross over the Guadalupe Mountains and Guadalupe Mountains National Park, ascending to 6280 feet, then into the Chihuahuan Desert. It was 73 degrees when we arrived and will be going down to 34 degrees tonight.
After setting up the RV we drove back to Carlsbad for dinner and are now watching Designated Survivor, season 2, for the 3rd time thru the years. The campground is situated in an area where we have very good wifi signal; ours, not theirs. I think its the strongest wifi we've had on this trip.
We are about an hour or so south of Roswell so tomorrow I think we'll head there to see all the alien kitsch. Thursday we have a reservation for the caverns via the Big Room Entrance so that Nancy can use her electric scooter and an elevator to descend into it. The other entrance, the Natural Entrance route, is not wheelchair/scooter accessible and is too steep for her to go down. It is a 1.25 mile, 750 foot descent down switchbacks into the cave.
Friday we may visit Sitting Bull Falls, a 150 foot waterfall. Aside from that, we don't know what we will be doing. Saturday we will be heading back to Texas where we will stop in Marfa for a few days.
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