Most Recent Travels…are at the Top! The rest is history.
and some chill time We visited lots of the San Diego classics when we were here in 2020, busy every day. This time we mostly hung out, did chores, walked around the camground, and enjoyed the weather (just a little chilly). But we did go into town 2 days to… Read more
And lots of down time warming up We had 51/2 days here…the first 21/2 days, out-and-about, it was >90o. The last 3 days it was ~80o, and we spent 2 of them ignoring the options for exploring we’d “planned”, and just hung out in the trailer with the windows open, Read more
More Ancient Dwellings & Historic State Parks We camped a bit south of Sedona, Arizona in Camp Verde, to be close to our intended National Park visits. We planned extra days, as we thought we would also visit Sedona and the Red Rocks Area of Arizona. We did make it Read more
And more Cold and Snow! Who knew there was a Volcanic Field in northern Arizona, covering 1,800 square miles, containing 600 volcanoes? Not us! The San Francisco Volcanic Field is an area of volcanoes north of Flagstaff, on the southern boundary of the Colorado Plateau. The highest peak in the field is Humphreys Peak, Arizona’s highest, at Read more
Stunning vistas, multi-colored crystals, an old Trading Post OH! And let’s not forget Route 66 and Dinosaur Fossils! That’s what we experienced here in Holbrook, Arizona. That, and hunkering down, staying an extra day (5 nights instead of 4), waiting for I-40 west to Flagstaff to open after the snow Read more
Yesterday Texas, Tomorrow Arizona Today we just hung around Grants, New Mexico, doing chores and…not much else. We did have a beautiful drive here yesterday, north through central New Mexico. We made a Green Chili Cheeseburger lunch stop at the Owl Bar and Café in San Antonio, New Mexico, discovered Read more
Last Stop, State Park & National Park in Texas! We arrived in a dust storm, not quite as bad as the one on the way to Marfa, but not much fun for Mark, towing Lizzy into the Franklin Mountains, outside of El Paso. We camped in a “rustic campsite” in Read more
Camping at another Texas State Park Texas may be almost 96% privately owned (an anomoly for the US), but the % we’ve seen in state parks (not to mention the 1.7% in National Parks) is very nice, including this campground in Davis Mountains State Park. There was no cell service Read more
In Big Bend National Park (#60-Revisit) One of our favorite National Parks, so far (top 5?), a place in Far West Texas where night skies are dark as coal and rivers carve temple-like canyons in ancient limestone. Here, at the end of the road, hundreds of bird species take refuge Read more
Two stops along the Mexican border… …with a few Border Control Checkpoints and wide fluctuations in temperatures. First stop, Laredo, where it was ~90, the day we arrived, but didn’t break 50 the 2 days we were there. Next stop, Del Rio, where it started warming up and even broke Read more