Most Recent Travels…are at the Top! The rest is history.
While we do a lot of our route planning around visits to National Park Sites (and State Capitols, etc.), we try to leave time for other sightseeing. The Bonus Sights around Grants, New Mexico, were AND…Hopefully our last SNOW!!! Five nights in Grants, and it only Snowed, a little, the Read more…
And Snow in Los Alamos! We had a little snow on our afternoon visit to Los Alamos, or should I say visits…the 20th and again yesterday, the 24th. So, we didn’t walk around as much as we might have, but we did visit the Manhattan Project NHP – Los Alamos Read more…
Enough to close National Parks, delay school openings! We got to Santa Fe last Wednesday, with threats of a snow storm coming in a day, so Thursday we made it into the city. We wandered around Old Town for awhile, visiting Santa Fe Plaza, Loretto Chapel, the Cathedral Basilica of Read more…
The ORIGINAL Las Vegas…Las Vegas, New Mexico Seriously…this Las Vegas predates Nevada’s by 70 years, having been established by a Mexican land grant in 1835. We just spent 4 nights here. Two National Parks in 3 days, from 2 locations! We got here on Saturday, after spending Friday (our last Read more…
AND…began “Nuclear” part of our “Nuclear New Mexico” Trip Starting day 4 in Albuquerque, and so far it’s only gone into the mid 40’s over night and hit the high 60’s during the day. A bit cooler forecast for today, but supposed to hit 70 tomorrow! TOASTY after the last Read more…
And more WIND!!! We spent the last 4 nights in Carlsbad, New Mexico (actually at the KOA 20 miles north). We spent the first day hanging in Lizzy in High Winds. The next 2 days we drove ~140 miles round trip / day, to Guadalupe Mountains National Park (#59-Revisit), to Read more…
Isn’t weather Grand?!? We got here on Saturday and didn’t plan much for Sunday. It was laundry day, and we had to deal with our decision to cancel our imminent 5-day camping trip to Guadalupe Mountains National Park…figure out our re-route and make new reservations. Thought maybe we’d do an afternoon Read more…
We did NOT leave the Snow and Cold in Arizona! We got to Silver City, New Mexico on Monday, for 5 days. Forecast was for cold and some snow starting in ~24 hours, so we made our trip to Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (#185) on Tuesday. It was our Read more…
And more SNOW! Not “camping in the snow”, here in Willcox, at just over 4,000′, but it was COLD! It got down to 15o one night. We encountered the snow, hiking! Two new National Parks, in 3 days, with 15+ miles of hiking Our stay in Willcox was all about Read more…
And YES…it DID SNOW…twice! We had a little snow on Monday in Tombstone, and on the drive back to Bisbee, and on Lizzy upon our return. Just a little, but enough that Mark “should have” shoveled the steps…they were ICY in the morning. But the snow we woke up to Read more…