New Mexico Has a Pie Town!
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…
Albuquerque, Petroglyphs, Watering Holes, and Volcanoes.
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…
Northern New Mexico
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…
Great Sand Dunes & Zapata Falls
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…
Van Trip Kickoff: Took Us Long Enough!
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…