June 1,2012, Carlsbad, NM

The last day in Carlsbad started late; we slept in until 8:00 and  had a nice breakfast at I Hop.  Boy, this is the way to camp!!!!   Then we took a nice drive out to Sitting Bull Falls in the Guadalupe Mountains, about 36 miles from Carlsbad.  Not sure why they are called Sitting Bull Falls.  Has nothing to do with the famous Sioux chief.  One story says it was named after a guy that told tall tales.  Who knows!

Anyway, we drove out there, and came back to town and just kind of vegged for the rest of the day.  Marv watched the NBA finals and sort of started packing up the trailer for the drive tomorrow.  We start heading west tomorrow on our way home.  I think we are finally warmed up and ready for some cooler weather, but I don't think we will get that until we back to Oregon.  It has been around 100 degrees for the last few days and is suppose to be that way until we get to California.  We do want to go to Mt. Lassen National Park on the way home, but right now it is still closed because of snow.  Will have to wait until we get closer to see.

There are these signs all over the place, whenever you come down off any kind of hill.

This is just after the signs.  You want to make sure there isn't a wall of water coming down the ravine.

Local wildlife.  We saw one skunk at the caverns, but mostly just these little lizards.

This is Sitting Bull Falls. They come from a spring and there are some pools below that you can swim in.

Marv liked this.  Said it looked like a grumpy old man.