Driving from Santa Fe to Capulin, NM | Visiting Santa Fe & New Mexico State Capitol Building | Pecos National Historic Site | Capulin Volcano National Monument | January 2026 We awoke this morning to once again find our water system was frozen — but at least we had learned from yesterday and prepared for…
El Malpais National Monument to La Cienega, NM | La Ventana Natural Arch | Petroglyph National Monument | La Cieneguilla Petroglyphs | January 2026 We survived our coldest night of camping yet, with the temperature dropping to 5 degrees Fahrenheit in El Malpais National Monument (not counting windchill)! Unfortunately, despite running the heater throughout the…
Visiting Window Rock, Arizona | Navajo Nation Museum | Driving from Window Rock, AZ to El Malpais National Monument in NM | January 2026 After leaving Petrified Forest National Park, we drove East on I-40 towards the AZ/NM border — a stretch of I-40 that we haven’t driven in either direction since we first moved…
Visiting Petrified Forest National Park | Driving from the Southern to Northern Entrance of the Park | January 2026 We awoke in the Crystal Forest campground to a cool and cloudy morning. We didn’t waste any time packing up and heading into the National Park, knowing we only had half a day before the next…
Kingman to Flagstaff, AZ | Visiting Sunset Crater and Walnut Canyon National Monuments | Camping in Kaibab National Forest | January 2026 Once we were finished around Kingman, it was time to start our drive across Northern Arizona. We were looking forward to taking our time driving I-40, with a combination of visiting places we’d…
Barstow, CA to Mojave National Preserve | Hiking & Camping in Mojave National Preserve | Hiking the Kelso Sand Dunes | December 2025 On the day after Christmas, we left our camping spot and returned to Barstow to run a couple errands to prepare for another week off the grid. After almost 4 weeks in…