1984 … A journey cross-country Commences

I then arrived at Carlsbad Caverns, home to roughly 1 million Mexican Freetail bats (along with thousands of other bats from 16 other species). This was the first primary stop on the cross-country mobile-home tour my mother & brother & I made that summer …

“Man is not himself only … He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand different sources … He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys, and all the residents thereof.” ~ via Mary Austin