Harvest Host
We just love this nomadic live style. Our path determined by weather and curiosity. So we were feeling a little blue as we sat there…
Canyon de Chelly Part Two
I read another great chapter in the book, Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass. The chapter was titled, The Honorable Harvest. She talks about…
Canyon de Chelly Part One
According to archaeologists, Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Chelly is pronounced Shay) has held Native American inhabitants for over 5000 years and it is one…
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…