Stalactites, Stalagmites and Columns, Oh My!

Oh wow!  Today we went to Carlsbad Caverns National Park.  We did the shortest and easiest tour but even that is totally amazing!  If you've never been there put it on your bucket list.  And if you're a senior you can get a Senior Park Pass for a one time fee and get into all national parks free.
The caverns are huge, a little humid, cool and a little dark.  We descended 750 feet, 75 stories, by elevator underground.  Sounds scary but it wasn't.  The formations are spectacular.
Here are some pictures, but they don't do it justice.

From the park we headed north.  We drove through the Sacramento Mountains to Alamagordo, New Mexico.  Pardon the windshield schmutz on my vehicular photography.  

Tomorrow we're planning on visiting the Space Museum and White Sands National Monument.  This is the part of the road trip I love, seeing the natural wonders of our country.