{"id":593,"date":"2011-11-13T12:18:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T19:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2025-09-24T22:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:33:23","slug":"road-trip-carlsbad-and-roswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip: Carlsbad and Roswell"},"content":{"rendered":"

We took a long Veteran’s Day weekend to road trip to Roswell and Carlsbad. Grams got the spontaneous award for driving over from Lubbock to meet us!<\/p>\n

Aven was a fantastic driver (at least at the Sonic drive in)<\/p>\n


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We spent the night in Roswell, went for a swim in the hotel pool, and then drove on to Carlsbad. It was so exciting to get to the park!<\/p>\n


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We had a great ranger\/tour guide!<\/p>\n


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It was very exciting to take the 750′ elevator down, especially when they turned off the lights! Then we got to take the ~1.5 mile walking tour around the caverns. We all loved it!<\/p>\n


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Even the bathrooms down in the caves were cool!<\/p>\n


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We got super lost, and had to get some new friends we met down there to show us the way out:<\/p>\n


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We met up with Grams after a nap, and spent the night in Carlsbad. Another good swim in the hotel pool, and we drove up to Roswell. We took a driving break to go to the International UFO Museum.<\/p>\n


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Torsten and Aven were very good hosts to their new buddy<\/p>\n


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The main display had a rotating saucer, smoke machine, and aliens that breathed, moved, and lotsa great music and sound effects:<\/p>\n


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After the museum, we went to the only spaceship themed McDonald’s for lunch, iMovie hacking with Grams, and lots of playing:<\/p>\n


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It was a very successful drive home (with dinner and Petco stops in Santa Fe) — Aven did fantastic, so we might be ready for some more fun road-tripping around the lower 48! Torsten thought the best part was the caving. We were all very glad to see Grams. And bonus: we got home Saturday night, so one more day of the weekend!! (It is a gray, fire in the fireplace, make frames, clean house, mellow kinda day).<\/p>\n

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We took a long Veteran’s Day weekend to road trip to Roswell and Carlsbad. Grams got the spontaneous award for driving over from Lubbock to meet us! Aven was a fantastic driver (at least at the Sonic drive in) We spent the night in Roswell, went for a swim in the hotel pool, and then … <\/p>\n

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