GRAND CANYON
On our way to the Grand Canyon we passed through terrain that gave us a taste of the Grand  Canyon.  Chewed up terrain!  Rugged cliffs, small canyons, dry river beds all in glorious reds, whites and yellows. Down and down we went to about 4000 feet (before we went back up again into the [...]

Mesa Verde
From bluegrass to cliff dwellings.  What culture shock.  We left Telluride and drove directly to Mesa Verde where we stayed in a weird national park campground run privately by Aramark. Quite unkempt campsites without electricity.  The drive there gave us a wonderful scenic drive through the flat topped mesas that were the home to [...]

 
Last year, as we were planning this trip we decided that one of the highlights would be our trip to the Santa Fe opera.  We knew that we would not be able to order tickets, but figured we could get standing room or scalped tickets or something.  What we did not figure was that the [...]

 
We love New Mexico.  I had a hard time convincing David to continue with our trip.  He was quite ready to put down stakes in Sante Fe.
On our way to Albequereque we went as close as we could to the Trinity site, where the first atomic bomb was tested.  However, since it is only opened [...]

From the cool depths of Carlsbad Caverns we  headed north towards Albequerque, going through a wonderfully scenic town, Artesia, full of street sculptures.
We stopped at White Sands National Momument, snow white gypsum sand dunes that move about 30 feet a year.  Wild, beautiful and hot.  104 degrees and no shade. the umbrella was for shade, not to protect [...]

Well, now we are in New Mexico and spent a wonderful full day at Carlsbad Caverns where the temperature on the outside was 100 degrees and on the inside was 56 degrees.  We went down and down and down, over 800 feet in the biggest, deepest cave we have ever been in.  It went on and [...]

Texas is called the bat state and, I assure you, that is so.  Once we left Louisianna we drove all day to Potter Creek State Park, set up our camp and left immediately to find Bracken Cave and the 20 million Mexican free tailed bats that left it every night.  The only catch was, no [...]

We have been so pleased with how easy our camping experiences have been.  First of all, we packed all the right stuff!  I don’t know how it happened, but we have not had one time where we looked at something we brought and said, “what in the world?”  We have also had very few “Where [...]

When we were in Nashville at the bluegrass dive, Station Inn, the Belgian man, Ed ,we met said that we should go to Mamou, LA to a bar called Fred’s which, on Saturday morning had great cajun music.  Since we are acting like feathers in the wind on this trip, we did, indeed leave New [...]

June 5 was the best day ever!  In the morning we drove out of town a ways to Lafayette National Park, with a boardwalk and pathway tour through a bayou and swamp.  Even though it was about 95 degrees and very high humidity, it was great to see the more natural side of New Orleans. [...]