Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas
Well, damn! we are back on the road. Our house has still not closed but all is in good hands with our realtor, CC Cossette…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Valley of Fires Recreation Area
The Valley Of Fires Recreation Area, in Carrizozo, NM, sits on a knoll in the middle of the Malpais (mal-pie-eese) Lava Flow. Malpais is Spanish…
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
I told Larry, when we were in Iowa City, that I wanted to go the Tallgrass Prairie. I don't know why. It just called to…
Lizard Effigy Mounds, Effigy Mounds National Monument and Pikes Peak State Park
Wherever we travel, I am drawn to ancient burial grounds. I have been very moved by the sites I visited in Ireland and the Orkney…
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