Day Three: Roswell and Carlsbad Caverns

A beautiful morning in Roswell greeted us yesterday. 

Joe was able to go for a 4 mile run while the boys slept in a bit. Seamus managed to crack his head on the side of the bed the night before and had a nice big lump!  

After breakfast we rolled into downtown Roswell and checked out the UFO Museum. Very interesting place to see!  And it was packed!  We need to watch the 1994 movie Roswell that depicts what happened in 1947. The boys have been taking pics too. I’ll upload their memories when we get home!

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After picking up some alien gear we headed  to Carlsbad to check out the Caverns. Max was able to get us all in with his 4th Grade National Parks pass. They do a really neat thing with that and the rangers mostly interact with the kids making them feel like they’re taking us on an amazing trip!  Lots of oil wells and pecan trees as we drove south!

It was 100 degrees on the surface when we arrived at the Park. 


We did the self-guided tour with some audio assistance and headed down into the caverns. The temperatures immediately dropped to about 50-60 degrees and it was very dark and wet. The smell of bat gano permeated the air; the bats leave the cave every night and fly about. We didn’t have time to see that but wish we could have!  It was beautiful but very steep and slippery to walk. Only one of us fell; yep, me. I slipped and went down on my knee. No big deal!  We saw the Bottomless Pit, the Fairy Gardens, and many more amazing stalagmites and stalactites decorating this immense cavern that was discovered by a 16 year old in 1926. 


The entire hike took us about 2 1/2 hours and was so worth it!  We left much later than anticipated but headed back to Roswell for dinner before driving a very long 3 hours through storms to Albuquerque where we stopped for the night. On the way we saw a white fox and an owl fly over us too!  Tomorrow we head into Arizona and toward the Grand Canyon 😍. Here are a few pictures of the McDonalds in Roswell!!

Day Two-Westward Bound!

Day two led us from Oklahoma into New Mexico. So many fields of rolled hay throughout OK!  The east side is very flat and looked like Ohio; lots of beef cattle all around. In Oklahoma City we stopped to see the Oklahoma City bombing site; very hard to walk through. 

Next we rolled on through towards Roswell,  New Mexico.   But we rolled past this sign first:


On the way to Roswell we passed through Amarillo, Texas. As we drove big storms appeared on the horizon. This was good with us as we pulled into Big Texan to grab some steaks. It stormed the entire time we were there; no problem for us!

After our delicious meal we were on the road again!  You could see forever!  As we came over a hill we saw the lights of Roswell-more than 20 miles away😳. You can see forever out here!!!  We finally arrived to our room at Townhill Suites and hit the sack ready for our next adventure!

Wally World-Here we come!

Welcome to our Kennedy Family Travels blog!  Hopefully I’ll be able to update our progress throughout our cross-country trek as we head down Route 66.  Tonight we made some reservations and finalized some of our itinerary!  Hopefully now I can figure out how to post pictures here as well!IMG_6410IMG_6513I’m rolling now!  I can put pictures in and be ready to go!  Hopefully this will continue to work throughout our trip!  Here goes nothing!