Month: April 2024
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Utah Reveals, Returning soon!
After our adventures in Gallup we leave the area without any regret. In dreary weather we drive a mile on the famous Route 66. While the clouds start to lift, we drive northward and soon the landscape becomes interesting again. Some big natural rock sculptures along the way let us guess whether we see “Shiprock”,…
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Into the mountains
Our trip from Tucson takes us up into the mountains. Saguaro cacti line our way for the next hour. As we start to get into higher altitudes they get replaced by juniper and other bushes. After a mountain pass the curvy road takes us into a stunning canyon. The landscape is breathtaking! As we reach…
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Saguaro National Park
We arrive in Tucson in the afternoon. Our RV park is a cute community with a mix of long- and short term campers and mobile homes. It’s a hot day, and we enjoy a siesta in the air conditioned RV, and grilled pork for dinner. The next morning we pick up our rental car at…
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White Sands National Park
We leave Carlsbad Caverns after exploring the natural entrance together and continue our trip towards New Mexico. The first 1.5 hours of our ride are pretty boring. To our surprise we hit a sign indicating we are entering Lincoln National Forest – no trees around, just a few junipers. There are also signs warning about…
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Carlsbad Caverns and Guadeloupe Mountains National Parks
The drive from Big Bend feels long – for hours we are passing through the Permian basin. It is flat, it is brown, and it is industrial. We see oil pump after oil pump, gas flares, and big plastic lined frac ponds storing contaminated water and flowback that is produced by fracking. There is not…
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Big Bend National Park
While we planned our travels this was always the first big destination we were aiming to get to pretty fast – hence some of the big distances and long travel days we have been going through over the last couple of weeks. Driving to Big Bend through the Chihuahuan Desert is much nicer than we…
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Caverns of Sonora
This is our last stop before we reach Big Bend National Park. We chose this stop more for the location (pretty much right in the middle between our Austin stop and Terlingua – Ghost town – where we are going to camp while we visit the National Park). Of course we don’t miss the guided…
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Warm welcome to Texas
After heading out of Hot Springs, Arkansas, we soon hit the Texas border. We are headed to Lewisville, TX to meet Dave’s friend Tony, whom he worked with for many years. Tony and Cindy give us a warm welcome, let us crash their driveway for a night, and have a big fenced yard for Winni…
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Hot Springs National Park
After a long drive to Arkansas we decide to save Hot Springs National Park for the next morning. We don’t have big expectations for it anyway. A National Park mostly created around old bath houses doesn’t too much resonate with our idea of parks and nature. We spend a rainy night at Catherine’s Landing, a…
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Crossing through Tennessee
We have passed through a good amount of states so far: We started in New Hampshire, stayed over night in Massachusetts, next stay was in Connecticut, we spent a night in the state of New York, enjoyed Friday evening at the distillery in Pennsylvania, and the next day we crossed through Maryland and West Virginia…