[xJones]

I love New Mexico. We visited Chaco National Historical Park about 15 years ago. It's located somewhat out of the way in northwest New Mexico, and at the time we had to drive in over about 20 miles of a "roughboard" dirt road, but it was really worth it! Chaco. Chaco, built by the mysterious Anasazi, the "old ones".

And you can freeze your tail off climbing up and down the paths in beautiful Carlsbad Cavern in southeastern New Mexico. That's the most beautiful cave I know of in the U.S., and I've taken the tour through several others.

And there's Los Alamos, atomic city, and the museum about the Manhattan Project is great.

And I could go on and on, because New Mexico is loaded with fascinating sights, and the New Mexican style of Mexican food beats all others, IMHO.

[Mama_Bear]

Thank you so much for this information about New Mexico. I went to the "Chaco" website...very interesting. I would love to go there. New Mexico has an allure that I can't explain. I guess "enchanted" says it best. :-)

I also want to go to the Carlsbad Caverns. I have been to the Luray Carverns in Virginia, but I've never been to Carlsbad.

Hundreds of thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats, whirling counterclockwise, spill forth from a gigantic hole in the earth and are silhouetted against a colorful desert sky...this is the bat flight experience at Carlsbad Caverns National Park.