Hey Y'all, we're in Southwest Texas

FIRST STOP: El Paso Ford. Our tow car was acting up. Luckily it was fixed in an afternoon and it was under $500!

If you look a little closer, you can tell this isn’t Bob………………...he doesn’t own a cowboy hat :)

The Wall

(…our first sighting of the wall, barrier, fence. No commentary.)

We visited 3 National Parks….

Guadalupe Mountains National Park

This is the tallest peak in Texas. A very pretty “drive by” on the way to Carlsbad Caverns.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park (NM)

GIANT!! The caverns are 80 stories down, once you make the decent its the size of 14 football fields, and its the home of hundreds of thousands Brazilian Free Tailed bats! I took the elevator down and walked up…I had to go by myself because Bob doesn’t like caves.

SPELEOTHEMS: the word of the day. That’s the umbrella term for the stalactites, stalagmites, soda straws, draperies and popcorn formations in the caverns….they were amazing!

The bats fly every sunrise and sunset, but we aren’t allowed in the bat cave during the day…..the bat guano (aka bat poop) is 40 feet deep….you can smell it from the entrance to the cave….yikes!

Big Bend National Park

There is a LOT (LOT) of driving to see the sights…..and with 188 miles of the Rio Grande river bordering the park….it took a LONG drive to get a little glimpse of the muddy river…..can you find it in the pictures???