As the name implies, Jemez Springs, has mineral springs that have been attracting people for centuries. After a beautiful morning of driving through the Valles Caldera National Park, we saw the first sign of these mineral springs, Soda Dam.…
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The Bradbury Science Museum is the chief public facility of Los Alamos National Laboratory. If it sounds familiar it’s likely because of the Manhattan Project, a research and development undertaking during WWII that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the…
From Santa Fe, Bandelier National Monument is about an hour drive and worth a stop! In New Mexico, more than one million years ago, huge volcanic explosions rained ash and cinders over a 1500 square mile area. Ash flows up…
There are some cities that live up to expectations. Las Vegas. You know before you go that there will be plenty of gambling and drinking, fine dining, sensational Cirque shows, tiny wedding chapels, and crowded clubs. New York. Bring…
There’s just something about wide open spaces like deserts and plains. Maybe it’s the comfort of wide open spaces. Here even the plants give each other room to breathe. Maybe it’s that these backdrop provide such a beautiful canvas…
From Oklahoma we crossed into Texas near Wellington. After a full day of driving through the flats we rounded a corner that overlooks the 800ft-deep Palo Duro Canyon, the deepest canyon in Texas. Palo Duro Canyon State Park The…
Carlsbad Caverns, in the Guadalupe Mountains of southern New Mexico, with the variety and scale of the formations in its “Big Room” make it the best of several caves we’ve toured to-date! The Guadalupe Mountain area actually contain more…
Last year in New Mexico, we checked out Earthships (post here). This year, ships not of this earth Few incidents have inspired as much fascination and speculation as the one in Roswell New Mexico. In the summer of 1947,…
If you’re seeking sunshine in the winter, look no further than White Sands National Park in New Mexico. They claim clear, sunny skies approximately 330 days out of the year, so your chances are good, really good! Despite this,…
It was a quiet weekday in Mesilla (a suburb and historic downtown of Las Cruces) when we arrived but most things were open. The town square has some fun history, cute shops and great place for lunch. We stopped…
