We were back on the road by 8:15, and were driving through three inches of snow in Wolf Creek Pass by 8:40. It was beautiful, but made for slow going. We worked our way across Colorado and Kansas. Mike car started acting up a bit but seemed ok. The next…
After the cold night we decided it was time to start heading home. We had tickets for the 11:00 ranger tour of Balcony House so we packed up camp and stopped to see a few things we had missed on the route the day before on our way to the…
We left the hotel in Cortez and by 9:15 we were entering Mesa Verde National Park. We didn’t realize how seasonal this park is. We were lucky that we got there when we did. Only one small loop of the very large campground was open, and it was slated to…
We packed up camp and Headed for Petrified Forest National Park. We spent most of the day working our way down the road through the Park. There are lots of overlooks and short trails along the way. The south end of the park has more of the petrified wood, but…
Before we had even decided to go west, I had mentioned an article to Mike and the kids. I was joking about how scientists come up with such original names for things. The article was talking about using the VLA to help interpret some strange readings from a system in…
We started the day with the International UFO Museum in Roswell. It was an interesting place with large libraries of UFO reports and information. There was definitely some sort of cover up of something in Roswell. Whether it was aliens, or experimental testing etc. , we will probably never know.…
We got up early and packed up camp, got a quick breakfast and were back at the caves by 9 am. There was a blustery wind blowing and the sky was grey, so it was a good day to go underground. We hiked down the natural entrance to the cave…
It is time to leave Big Bend and move on to other places. There is something magical about this park. I usually like to see new places, but Big Bend is one of those places I have been to 3 times now, and I am sure someday we will return.…
Because we didn’t have time to hike Santa Elena Canyon the night before, we decided to head down there in the morning. It was about an hours drive from the camp ground. The trail leads you across a small tributary of the Rio Grande, up and over the rocks, and…
We started our morning with a 4.4 mile hike to the Window. At 4600 ft elevation, we found that we are really out of shape. The higher elevation combined with the heat of the day was enough hiking for us… By 2:30 we were back at camp and after a…
