Whitewater Draw
I heard about Whitewater Draw https://www.audubon.org/important-bird-areas/whitewater-draw-state-wildlife-area from an athletic octogenarian at the Chiricahua visitors center. She was showing me photos of the Sandhill Cranes on…
Chiricahua National Monument
27 million years ago the Turkey Creek Volcano spewed over 1,200 square miles of ash (11 times bigger than Mount St. Helen) in this area…
Fort Bowie
The only way to visit the Fort Bowie ruins is to drive 9 miles of dirt road and then a 3 mile out and back…
Living the Dream – 1 year later
Larry and I have been sleeping in Shiny for over a year now. Eight months of that time has been on the road and four…
Rock Hound State Park
Snow on fish hook barrel cactus Rock Hound State Park is in Deming, New Mexico. I was pretty excited to get there given my passion…
Fort Cummings
I first saw Fort Cummings while perusing Google Maps on my iPhone and thought I am going to find this old place. On our first…
Silver City, New Mexico
We needed a Walgreens, groceries, hardware store, WiFi, Post Office, laundry, and most important Shiny's holding tanks were chock full. We decided to live in…
City of Rocks State Park
The City Of Rocks is a pretty cool place! The locals call it "The City". They say a picture is worth a thousand words so…
Hatch, New Mexico
I'm not going to argue with the village of Hatch's claim that they are the Chili Capital of the World. I fell in love with…
Lake Valley Ghost Town
All the locals at the Caballo (CAH-BY-OH) Lake Airstream Rally told us we had to go to Hatch, NM, the Chile Pepper Capital of The…