The Day Our Dog Grew Up
Determined to not cross over our footsteps like we did so many times in New Mexico, our first major decision for the next leg of the trip was whether or not to skip Oklahoma's pan handle. In retrospect, it seems…
New Mexico’s Bisti Badlands
The Bisti Wilderness is another red dot on our National Geographic Road Atlas that seems to be well kept secret on the statewide nature scene. It's a fragile looking geological valley full of petrified wood and bizarre sand formations tucked…
Ancient Native Cultural Ruins
As we complete our figure eight of New Mexico, we headed through ruins from various Native American tribes. Our first stop was the Chaco Cultural National Historic Park, which is a large area of trading centers from Native American tribes. …
Meow Wolf or: How I Learned to Question Santa Fe
I'll get to Meow Wolf in a minute, but first our journey starts with a classic road trip flat tire. We were on our way through the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, which are local ruins with a short but…
Alien Caves and Coverups
After spending a whole two nights in the same campsite it was time to cover some ground! We cruised back through Las Cruces, stopping to sweat and shower at Planet Fitness before going down to El Paso. This seemed to…
Driving To The White Sands
We woke up to a gorgeous morning on highway 152 and cleaned up a bit of camp before heading over Emory Pass. Being in a van limits hike-in camping spots somewhat but opens up others like this gravel patch that…
Exploring Gila (pronounced HEE-luh)
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…
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…