My 2020 Trip to New Mexico 2: Guadalupe Mountains NP

This blog post is about my second day in New Mexico in March 2020. You can read about my first trip here. My destinations thus far on my journey - around forty minutes from my cabin to Carlsbad Caverns, and another thirty or so to Guadalupe Mountains My second day in New Mexico started bright and early. Today was technically not going to be spent in the Land of Enchantment. Instead, I was going to Guadalupe Mountains National Park to hike Guadalupe Peak - the highest point in the state of Texas. My best friend had expressed interest in one day hiking to the highest peak in every state. I scoffed at him when he expressed that because I hadn't yet fallen in love with hiking. He had already climbed to the Texas summit and this was my chance to catch up years after. Before I left my cabin however, I met my neighbors: a charming, older couple that was in the cabin next to mine. They came out to join me while I was drinking my campfire coffee. They were in their late 60s and early 70s, and…