Knotts Berry Farm

Roswell & Carlsbad, NM

Hiking in Carlsbad Caverns. Wow I wouldn't go so far as to say Carlsbad Caverns are better than Yellowstone Park but there is nothing at Yellowstone that is better than the experience of hiking through the narrow passage ways and huge caverns decorated with soda flutes, stlactites and column formations.

There are two entrance to the caverns, first the elevator that takes you 70 stories down into the big cavern and a natural entrance that you walk down tight switch backs to the bottom. The bats exit out the natural entrance nightly at dusk. When we first entered the natural entrance it smelled a little like a urinal.

Guatto, bat poop, can pile up to 40 feet deep in the bat cave. You only notice the smell when you first enter the cave. As we turned the last corner where the opening of the cave was still visible I could see clouds of steaming mist leaving the cave as the light was shining into the cave. You can only see it from the inside of the cave looking out and I though that's where you smell it the most. I wasn't sure if it was musty cave smell or fermenting bat poop.

Palm Springs / Joshua Tree

Desert Hot Springs was a real treat. I had wanted to visit the world famous windmill farms for the past five years. We spent a day driving down dirt roads filming different windmills from all angles. I plan to use some of the footage on my personal website or possibly start up a windmill specific website.

Gretchen had a few friends in town that she had grown up with that came over to visit and enjoy the natural mineral water. We spent time working on websites, real estate deals and miniature golfing.

One of the days we drove through Joshua Tree State Park. The large bolders and Joshua Trees were interesting to look at. At the peak of the park you can see Palm Springs and the boarder of Mexico on a clear day.