Category Mid West USA 2024

We spent 2 days in Santa Fe. Many of our friends suggested we come here, and many of our friends were right. We treated ourselves to 2 night at the ‘Inn and Spa at Loretto” in Santa Fe’s historic downtown.…

We stopped in Roswell, New Mexico, to see the Aliens. The town has really embraced the whole Alien thing. The visit to the Alien/Area 51 museum was well worth it. We believe.

We tried to visit Carlsbad Caverns on the way to Texas for the Solar eclipse, but we were unable to get entry tickets. Probably all the other Solar Eclipse seekers had the same idea. Anyway, lot’s of tickets were now…

Guadalupe Peak is the highest peak in Texas. It is also a National Park. And it is on the way to Colorado. We got up early and slipped away from our camping spot around 6:30am for the drive back to…

Near Fort Davis is McDonald Observatory. There is quite some history at this site, as it dates back to 1939. We took a tour of the site and enjoyed walking around. Molly again started to act up, so the visit…

With the Solar Eclipse over, it was time to head off. We said goodbye to everyone and headed to Big Bend National Park. This park is on the very southern border of the Texas, the United States and the northern…

It took us several weeks, but we finally made it to Comfort Texas. Here we rendezvoused with friends and other earthcruiser owners. The weather forecast was not good, but we decided to stay put instead of chasing better weather. And…

A few hours outside of Albuquerque is Very Large Array or VLA. Stephen has been wanting to go this engineering marvel for decades, and finally got the chance. Caroline visited the VLA back in 2005 with Deirdre, and was special…

Headed north out to Albuquerque to Boca Negra Canyon, which is just one of the Petroglyph National Monument sites. There are hundreds of archeological sites and an estimated 24,000 petroglyph images carved by Ancestral Pueblo peoples and early Spanish settlers.…

We made a small side-trip to visit 4 Corners, the only place in United States where there is a confluence of four states; Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico intersect at a Monument and tourist attraction. Apparently the monument is…

This little National Park has managed to elude us over the last 20 years. We arrived late to the campground as we made the decision to spend most of the day enjoying the amazing scenery of Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument.…

Between Great Basin National Park and Capitol Reef National is the Red Canyon.in Dixie National Forest. It was a good spot to stop for the night. We headed up a dirt side road to find a secluded wild camping spot.…