I woke up around 7:00 am to another beautiful, but very cold day. The temperature must have been in the teens. The furnace ran most of the night set at 56 degrees. After turning up the heat, I went to wash my face - nothing. Our hose outside the rig froze and our in-line filter expanded and exploded. After turning off the KOA bib valve and disconnecting everything, I turned on the internal water to our onboard water tank so we could have water in the house.
We waited until it warmed up a bit (about 40 degrees in direct sunlight) then headed for Carlsbad Caverns http://www.nps.gov/cave/ about 15 miles away and another 1,000 feet up. This is a huge facility with two self guided tours and four guided tours of varying dificulty. We chose to do one of the self guided tours and one with a ranger.
Down we went 750 feet in a high speed elevator to the main gathering place. Simply amazing. The sheer scale and size of the caverns is unbelievable. They're huge! And everywhere you look there are fantastic formations. The caves are lit with minimal lighting so in some places you can't see the far walls or the ceiling. Taking photos of features more than 15 feet away is impossible, even with flash, there just isn't enough light. But it makes the caverns more intriguing. Rather than put a lot of photos here, click on the following link to go to our photo albums: 
1 comment:
Oh, No!! Frozen water line. We could tell many humorous stories (they're funny now) about RVing.
I guess this is why I chose to follow your blog. Keep posting, I'm reading. At least everything that breaks on an RV can be fixed, somehow!
judy
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