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3-Day Carlsbad, Guadalupe and White Sands National Parks Itinerary
ByNadya B January 16, 2021August 11, 2026

It was a year ago we took this trip, not knowing COVID would take over the world and wreck the rest of our travel plans for 2020. I look back at this trip often and I am so glad I took advantage of a 3-day holiday weekend to do it! The size and location of…

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2020 - Carlsbad Caverns, Guadalupe and White Sands | All Travel | National Parks | New Mexico | Texas | United States | White Sands (NM)

Playing in the Gypsum Dunes
ByNadya B March 7, 2020August 4, 2026

[White Sands National Park, TX, Jan 19, 2020] By the time White Sands became a national park in December 2020, we had already made our plans for Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe. But once I realized White Sands is just 90 minutes away from El Paso, TX, which we were flying in and out of, I…

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2020 - Carlsbad Caverns, Guadalupe and White Sands | All Travel | Carlsbad Caverns (NM) | National Parks | New Mexico | Texas | United States

Carlsbad Caverns – A Jewel Underground
ByNadya B February 15, 2020August 11, 2026

[Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Jan 18, 2020] Late last year, I was eyeballing my work holiday schedule and tried to figure out if there is a national park I can visit during the three-day weekend for Martin Lurther King’s birthday. Normally, I stay put during that weekend, trying to give both my bank account and…

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2012 - HEDW (TX) | All Travel | Texas | United States

Duck tours and bats
ByNadya B April 15, 2012October 4, 2019

[Austin, TX] It is Sunday morning. I’ve set my alarm for the obscenely early hour of 7 am because I have a task – run 8 miles!!! As part of my half-marathon training (I am hoping to complete the San Diego rock-and-roll half marathon in early June), I am building up to the 13.1-mile distance…

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2012 - HEDW (TX) | All Travel | Texas | United States

Roaring Fork
ByNadya B April 14, 2012October 4, 2019

[Austin, TX] After our afternoon of sight-seeing in San Antonio, we headed back to Austin. We checked into the AT&T Hotel and Conference center, which was on the fringe of the University of Texas at Austin campus and was actually owned and operated by the university. This was where our conference would be over the…

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