Today's highlight was a visit to the Living Desert State park just outside of Carlsbad. We spent a few hours there walking and seeing the desert plant and wildlife exhibits. It's a nicely put together facility on the bluffs overlooking the city. The local rattle snake even shook his tail for us. I fear we shall discover that we neglected to keep our walking muscles toned during our time back in Texas.....
One of the hard things about rolling into a new town is finding a nice place to go out to eat. Every city of any size and even some that are not have the usual fast food burger and sandwich shops. The Urban spoon mobile app helps but we are usually in the hunt before we think of using it. At times we almost give up and hit the national chains even though we would rather not.
But we do have our far share of luck as well. Tonight we stopped at the Yellow Brix just because they had a nice looking patio. Rose had a craving for a burger ( we almost stopped to take her temperature but realized she was not sick, we had only half starved her... :o) )
At first we thought it was a run of the mill sandwich shop, then realized it may have been a bit too upscale, but we finally found they were serving the lunch menu so ended up with the best chicken tortilla soup ever ( even though it was a bit spicier than we are used to) and a great Mexican hamburger. Yes, Rose attacked hers with a vengeance.
Seems the cave tours were full up for Thursday but we did get res's for Friday. So, tomorrow is Guadalupe National Park day. Perhaps another junior ranger badge for the young one. Oh, yes they now have a senior ranger program.....
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