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Visiting Carlsbad Caverns New Mexico

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Visiting Carlsbad Caverns New Mexico

Visiting New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns

Carlsbad Caverns will always be a special place for me. It was the first place that Scott and I visited after we got married. It was a crazy trip, the area had been in an extreme 3-year drought and of course the day we got there it rained, then it rained the second day and so on. Despite the rain, we had an amazing trip. We went off-roading in our van, went to the caverns and even went on the Slaughter Canyon Hike and cave tour. Not sure I’d be able to handle that hike these days but the memories are amazing. The video below is from our second trip there, we were celebrating 20 years of marriage that month! We were much older the second time around but the memories being made were just as amazing. [Read more…]

Visiting the Houston Space Center, What you Need to Know

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Visiting the Houston Space Center

I can finally mark visiting the Houston Space Center off my list of places to see. Houston is about a five-hour drive for us so we started out around 6:00 am. Our first stop was at Buc-ee’s for gas. While we were there we had to look around and Scott found a little stuffed Buc-ee for our granddaughter, Samantha. We decided it would be fun to take Buc-ee with us into the Space Center and let him pop up from time to time to say high to her. Tomorrow I’ll get Buc-ee in the mail to her and she can sit and watch the video with it. All of the spots you see Buc-ee pop up are places that the general public can touch. We didn’t put him anywhere off-limits or where there were signs not to touch. [Read more…]