Currently sitting at White's City, NM near Carlsbad Caverns NP waiting for the wind to abate before we travel on. Maybe tomorrow we hear. A little venture with just the truck indicated the strength of the wind, rated to gusts of 55 MPH today, only 40 tomorrow! We took in the Carlsbad Cavern for the last couple of days Seeing all the pretty formations down low and out of the wind, was a great idea in this country in the spring.


The grand cave is below this landscape somewhere. I gave up trying to photograph inside, simply not enough light! Even Ansel Adams considered his photos a failure when he was here. They weren't a failure in my eyes.

Lots to learn about caves. I think of them as one of the last wilderness places (not this one where it is lit and paved) for the inability of electro-communications to penetrate them. The extreme situations for the life forms are well worth considering and have some bearing on our understanding of what it takes to live. Anyone catch the little report on bacteria living on uranium deep in the ground the other day? hmmm?

For more on the Southwest Trip and Big Bend National Park, click previous blogs below.