By now I'm starting to realize that it's not going to be a long, introspective, 40-days-of-meditation kind of trip. Not sure why I thought we'd be swimming in free time, but with each spot we visit offering such great experiences…
With little internet and even less predisposition to do research we had no idea if Pie Town, NM, would actually serve pies, if the pies were made of food, or if it was named more abstractly like remote towns tend…
Headed south from Lake Cochiti we veered into Tent Rocks National Monument, then proceeded to immediately veer back because not only was there a line to get in (at 9am on a Tuesday!) but they didn't allow dogs to even…
Only a few centimeters in on the map of New Mexico is the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, which gaps an impressive drop in the middle of a vast valley. We didn't spend much time here but it's certainly photogenic. Pretty…
We had a local's inside knowledge (friend of the sis-in-law) to point us where to camp near the dunes. We set up near Zapata Falls to the south of the park and settled in for a gorgeous view of the San…
Our journey started with some housekeeping steps including picking up the rest of our family! On the way down to Crested Butte, Colorado we stopped at Hanging Lakes and hiked up the snow covered trail. Harper, our 2.5 year old…