Carlsbad Caverns

I gotta say, this is one of the coolest places I've been to so far. It's gonna be in the top 5. But a warning to everyone who sees the pictures: you can never get a cave picture to come out just right, so to really know what it looks like you just have to go see for yourself.
I was at this park for a couple of days. Actually, there's no camping there so I stayed at Guadalupe Mountains National Park about 45min down the road in Texas. I did the self-guided tour where you can see what they call 'the big room' and took lots of pictures. But the best part was one of the guided tours they offer. You have to pay extra, but it's totally worth it! I did one that went down to the lower cave and it was the scariest trail I've ever done! To get down there you first have to use a rope to get down a slippery bit of slick rock. Then you have to go through a series of three steel ladders which are often tilted to one side and very slippery! Once you get past that the tour gets a lot better, but man is it hard to get past that first part. One person on the tour never made it past the first ladder.
But there are so many cool formations to see in the lower cave. We also did a crawl through a small tunnel. I never thought I'd have the guts to squeeze myself through a tunnel 800 feet underground!
After that I had to go see the bats fly out of the cave. That was a really amazing thing to see. Thousands of bats just come streaming out and you can see them trailing off for miles into the distance.
The next day I noticed Babe had a leaky gas tank, so I had to get that taken care of. Not too bad, and it got done in an hour. I've been considering going to the gulf coast of Texas to camp on the beach there, but it's hurricane season right now and the forecast for that area says thunderstorms for the next ten days. I think I'll save that trip for later.
Instead I'm going to head towards Denver. So if you live in that town, and you used to be my roommate, expect a call.