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8/5/2020

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It's interesting what photos show up on my Facebook feed, and today it was of Bonnie and Efreet exploring Carlsbad Caverns on a trip to the southwest back in 2014.....
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 This was in the days before I'd had assigned some of my dolls to permanent families. In fact I threw together a 'family' of dolls with Leona and Owen as the adults, and three children that I'd had trouble bonding with, in hopes that focusing on just them for a few weeks would help. 

The photos above were taken at the last stop on our trip, at Carlsbad Caverns.  I didn't take the dolls into the actual cave, which turned out to be a good thing since they were so poorly lit. So I took photos of them inside the Visitor centre in front of huge murals, and with their 'sacrificial stalagmite'.

Here's a few more of my favourite photos from that trip....

Leona with Bonnie and ​Efreet at Cameron Pass in Colorado....
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Peach, Bonnie and Efreet at Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs...
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Owen and Efreet at 14,000' at the summit of Pike's Peak.....
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Biking in Arches National Park...
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Peach, exploring Santa Fe....
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Efreet and Bonnie at the Albuquerque Balloon Festival....
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Relaxing atop the dunes in White Sands....
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It was my very first 'family trip', and by the next one Owen and Leona had their own children.  Efreet went on to get a family of his own, but Peach and Bonnie have stayed 'orphans'.

​To see their entire adventure - Starts Here
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Dorothy
8/5/2020 07:01:59 pm

Thanks for sharing these memories. I think that your BIDs have been to more places in the US than I have (laugh).

I like the photo at Pike's Peak. I also like the one of Peach in Santa Fe. It looks like she is standing near the Plaza where the Indian Market is held.

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Martha
8/6/2020 03:46:01 am

You're probably right, they have been all over the USA and Canada.

Pike's Peak was a challenge for me. I had thought it was 12,000' elevation, which I thought I might be able to deal with - I get elevation sickness over 10,000' - but then it was over 14,000'. I was so dizzy and couldn't move out of my seat. I got Jan to drive over to the edge of the parking lot, pose the dolls for me, and I took the photo out the RV window.

Peach is in downtown Santa Fe across the street from the park beside the big church, maybe a block from the Plaza.

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