🇺🇸 Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico - 05.10.2026

National Parks are National Parks for good reason… they are spectacular… but… the vibration of the crowds… and the demographic of the poeple… it’s just not my thing.

I get a National Park Pass (America the Beautiful) for $80 each year I’m in a wandering mode… so I can pop in and out… simply this… I see them… I’m glad I did… and I get the fuck out and fast.

The caverns are truly amazing… but… screaming kids… barking parents… old dudes alerting all to geological information in great detail with monotone voices… teenage boy scouts stomping 2 feet behind you, as not to be rude and walk in front of you, retired couples blocking the pathway for fotos, and families of 12 in a party that ask, and often, “how much more until the end?!?”

And to be honest… with all the distractions… in my brain, “how much more until the end?!?”

I just left a city of 22 million people… there is little peace… and you aclimate and deal with the noise, screaming, smells, traffic, rude behavior, silliness… and on and on… but in nature… I want peace… I want to be alone… and I don’t want to hear screaming humans, young or old or both. I’m selfish that way.

I was traveling from San Antonio, TX to Albuquerque… and Carlsbad Caverns is roughly on the way. For the record… East New Mexico is more like West Texas. People, climate, environment, oil pumps, vibration… I can’t say I dig on it… but I was happy to be in NM and out of TX.

I’m headed to West El Paso, TX… which is more like South New Mexico… maybe we need to move State lines… we human beings love creating fictitious lines on a map.

Anywho, if you’re in El Paso let’s get together and talk about the great Colorado-Texas Tomato War… it’ll be a good’ol time y’all.