Driving from Wilcox, AZ to Three Rivers, NM | Visiting White Sands National Park | Camping & Hiking in Three Rivers Petroglyph Site | January 2025 This morning, we woke up to the sound of the cranes taking off for the day. We emerged from the van to watch them take flight, and enjoyed a…
Driving from Buffalo Lake NWR, TX to Manzano Mountains, New Mexico | Bosque Redondo Memorial | Visiting Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument | Camping in the Manzano Mountains | December 2024 We began today with taking US-60 West from our campground near Umbarger, TX into New Mexico. Thanks to having all of the counties in…
Hiking in Palo Duro Canyon State Park | Camping in Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge | December 2024 After leaving Washita Battlefield in Oklahoma, we drove another hour or so into Texas to our intended camping spot for tonight. We entered the state on I-40, then drove South on TX-207. For most of the drive,…
Driving from Texas to Iowa | Camping in Kansas and Missouri | Visiting Fort Larned National Historic Site | December 2023 We broke up the remainder of our drive across the Great Plains over three days, aiming to arrive in Iowa on Christmas Eve. On the first day, we drove North from Caprock Canyon through…
Driving from El Paso to Caprock Canyons State Park, Texas | Guadalupe National Park | Caprock Canyons State Park | December 2023 After our night camping in Pancho Villa, it was once again time to take on the beast set before us: another long drive across Texas. We planned a route that would get us…
Winter Migration Road Trip, Day 6 | Wichita Mountains, OK to Caprock Canyons State Park, TX | Hiking & Camping in Caprock Canyons State Park | November 2023 As you may recall, this past spring we completed our goal of visiting all 50 states together. When reminiscing about the things we’ve done in each state,…