The Neuner Times: Let the Fall Fun begin !

At long last we escaped one last time this year. We headed west to Sedona but not without a stop or two along the way….Here’s our Fall 2012 contribution to the family blog…..

Debbie and I left about 7:30 in the morning and drove southwest from McKinney and promptly ran into airport traffic and a ton of construction in the Fort Worth area. The DFW Metroplex continues to expand all the while laying more and more concrete creating more and more water runoff. Tons of construction everywhere it seems.

With the traffic problems behind us, we are headed for Carlsbad Caverns, in Southern New Mexico. We have always talked about stopping there, but never had the time until this year. We checked in to the hotel around 4pm and ran to the National Parks office in Carlsbad to pick up some literature and get some local info like – where is the post office #$%^. We found out that every night in the summer thru October the park hosts a bat flight watch party….so Debbie and I went out to the park(about 25 miles from the hotel) to bat view.

There was some concern if I could make the long walk down to the bat cave area….but no problems… seems like the new hip is working – yea !! We couldn’t take pics or videos while the bats were coming out of the cave. We have included a couple of stills