Spelunkin’ a few miles from home
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Livin’ the dream (… of a 7 year old Indiana Jones) |
There are some caves just north of town that I’ve been spying for a while now. We’ve explored a bunch of local sand caves, but these loom high above the desert land below, and I wasn’t quite sure how we’d get to them. I tried to take the kids when their dad was in PA, but JJ was freaking out the entire time so I figured I better wait until Steve got back 🙂 There’s a really creepy backwoods shed, with a couple of overturned cars in a ditch… along the way…. and yeh, it actually is a little unsettling. But now daddy’s home! Yay! So, tonight I promised Harry we’d go find these dang caves.
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en route to those holes in the mountain over yonder |
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Wee! Wow, actually this cave is a LOT bigger than I thought! |
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sand angels 🙂 |
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the beauty of nature (just disregard that graffiti to the left) |
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Look at these colors! Wowzers! |
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The happiest scrunt EVER |
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more explorin’ (next time we need to bring headlamps) |
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JJ on the edge (sweet!) |
We’ve been here nearly 10 years now. And we KEEP finding new places to explore. These caves are about 5 miles from our house. It’s pretty awesome. I’m thinking I need to throw a party here. Maybe when I turn 40 🙂