We took 380 all the way into Carrizozo, NM and stayed at the Valley of the Fire Recreation Area ($18/night). God provides the most beautiful landscape: on one side of the trailer there are breathtaking mountains and on the other side are amazing volcanic rock formations that stretch on for miles and miles. The only problem that arose from camping here is that the wind gusts that kept us up most of the night shaking the trailer, we even at one point parked the truck along side the trailer to create a bit of a wind break which can't really say helped. After the long windy night we awoke to another beautiful morning and thankfully most of the wind had passed, but that beast of a sun was working overtime already. Nothing else to do, but ... read more

Today we got to go to our first National Park, Carlsbad Caverns. We left early in the morning and thankfully the weather was much nicer than the day prior. It took us about an hour to get there, we arrived to a very windy and curvy road, making us very grateful to not have the trailer in tow. We entered the base of the National Park into a mountainous area, much different than what we are use to on the east coast; the mountains here are rocky, sandy hills with a little bit of vegetation. We finally made it to the top where the parking, entrance and gift shop are located. The view from here was beyond words, so we will include a few pictures. We went ahead and purchased the National Park pass for $80 ... read more

Our friends recommended that we visit Schlitterbahn water park during our stay in San Antonio, so we found a great campground only 10 minutes from the water park, Hill Country RV Resort. The pricing at this resort was odd they charged us $24/night passport rate + $10 for our daughter per night, was suppose to be $5 for each child per night. Plus they said that Thursday is not passport even though on passports sight it is included, but we returned to the front desk on Wednesday night and they ended up giving us the same rate for Thursday. Other than the cost the resort itself was really nice: our site provided much needed shade, they had indoor and outdoor pools, bounce pillow, great room, Wi-Fi, cable...what more could you ask for. Our first day we ... read more

Our first stop was New Orleans to visit with one of the four musketeers, Brooke Biggs. We found a nice state park near their home, Fairview-Riverside State Park ($25/night) that turned out to be very nice. We ate a late dinner at Morton's featuring some great seafood. The next day the Biggs were kind enough to take us on a tour of New Orleans and let us rest and enjoy. They drove us across the 24 mile bridge to New Orleans; we went to Landry's Seafood for lunch. Then they took us to visit one of the New Orleans Dens to see parade floats, the Mississippi River, French Quarter, levy system. They then prepared a delicious dinner for us. It was a fantastic experience thanks to great hosts. ... read more