New Mexico: Zozobra, Acoma, Bandelier, Alien Throne, Array & Carlsbad Caverns!

Please Note: Read the information carefully below BEDFOR you RSVP "Yes" for this multi-day event.

1. I am only allowing members who have attended several other Pleasure Palate events in the past for this event. If you have never attended events before, you are not permitted to join in on this trip.
2. You must be a low maintenance, easy going person. Meaning if things don't turn out exactly as planned due to circumstances beyond our control, you will be fine with it. You are not the type of person who gets easily upset or frustrated when things don't go your way.
3. Be physically in shape to hike in 90s degrees weather,
4. The planned itinerary is:
   Thurs - fly into Albuquerque and go on the Acoma Sky Village Tour and Visit Bandelier National Park and stay overnight in Albuquerque
5. Fri -hike to the Alien Throne in the Bisti Badlands attend the Zozobra parade and festival in the late afternoon/evening and stay overnight in Santa Fe
   Sat - tour the Array and stay overnight in Roswell
   Sun - tour the Carlsbad Caverns and stay overnight in El Paso
   Mon - Fly back to LAX from El Paso
6. Zozobra will require advance ticket purchase when they become available: Zozobra 2025 - The Hottest Santa Fe Festival!
7. If its possible, we will try to tour the Carlsbad Caverns on Sunday morning and catch a flight back to LAX on Sunday evening. But if there are no flights available on Sunday evening, then we will fly back to LAX from El Paso on Monday morning instead.
8. We will be spending between $100 to $150 per day for this trip.
9. I will be renting a large SUV for this trip and only allowing up to 6 other people (at my discretion) to join me on this trip.

So I just returned from my extended Labor Day weekend from TX and NM. We got to see almost everything on the planned itinerary except for the Carlsbad Caverns. So I want to try again next Summer, but this time around add in a bunch of other sites and events I have not been able to squeeze in in prior trips to New Mexico. Most notably, I want to finally experience Zozobra, which is a precursor to Burning Man - which I have done about a decade ago. I have also been wanting to tour the Acoma Sky Village, hike to the Alien Throne in the Bisti Badlands, climb the ladders at Bandelier National Park, tour the Array where the movie Contact was filmed, and finally revisit Carlsbad Caverns and marvel at its underworld beauty. So come join me in fantastic and enchantment filled adventure!