We stopped in a town called Pecos (as in Pecos Bill) for lunch. This place La Nortena Tomales had a 100% rating on Urban Spoon, so we checked it out. They were out of green tomales, but the red ones were delicious. We split a dozen and could only eat two each for lunch. (We also had two each for dinner, and there's still four left.)
Pecos is also famous for being the place where the first rodeo was held; Wikipedia says it was held on July 4, 1883.
As we neared Carlsbad (and entered Mountain time!), we had to stop for gas, where Tom made a new friend. Her dog is called Huegos, we think, which means "to wiggle." Which, if you ask me, is a really awesome name for a dog.
We got to Carlsbad after all the self-guided and guided tours were done, so we wandered around and took in some sights. This place is awesome, and we haven't even been inside the part that's made it famous.
At 7 p.m., there was a bat sighting event, where at peak times (around August), up to half a million bats awake and fly out of a cave. Photography wasn't allowed, but there wasn't a whole lot to see; we learned about bats for about 45 minutes and then saw probably about 100-200 fly out over a 15 minute stretch. Cool, but even with a camera it would have been hard to capture the moment because it was super dark.
We're camping at an RV park tonight. I tried to take some star trails, but apparently my camera can only take a 30 second picture, and I need way longer than that to show star motion. I'll read the manual tomorrow and see if I'm doing something wrong, but in the meantime this picture of the moon and some stars and a tree is maybe halfway decent but probably not.
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