mOjo Caliente
When you want to drop out of the daily grind, come to New Mexico – The Land of Enchantment. When we drove across southern NM last year visiting Carlsbad Caverns, long stretches of cactus fields and pecan farms and the
Far Flung in the Taos Box
New Mexico’s premier whitewater run is 17 miles through the Rio Grande Gorge, a black basalt chasm with stunning cliffs, plentiful bird life and big horn sheep, which we saw all of those. This section, known as-the Taos Box, boasts
Earthship Biotecture
While the big car companies are battling it out to be first to market in the the autonomous driving vehicle movement, an environment-friendly company in Taos, NM has been working on the autonomous house for almost 50 years, becoming a
Biking Burque
After a month of communing with nature we were ready for livin’ la vida local in central New Mexico and there’s no better way to get to know a city than on a bike. The Spamway ride gave us a
Nuclear Spamway
Albuquerque is famous for its history with nuclear power. Sandia Labs, home to the National Nuclear Security Administration, sits adjacent to Kirtland AFB. It makes a beautiful backdrop to our panoramic view from the Fam Camp. Los Alamos, home to
Albuquerque 2000
Betty rolled 2000 miles yesterday. That’s 26 days in 5 states visiting 6 national and 2 state parks biking, hiking and touring canyons, hoodoos, reefs, goblins, mesas, dunes and arches. The Apple pedometer credited us with 327,316 steps for 132.9
House Hunters Mesa Verde
Around 500 CE, the indiginous people of Colorado’s Mesa Valley region were living in underground pit houses and growing beans, corn and squash on a huge mesa at 8000 feet elevation. After a few hundred years, someone thought to climb
Needle Nose Fliers
Needles is the definition of the middle of nowhere. When you are standing at Grand View overlook at the Island in the Sky, gazing south over canyonlands, awed by the vast expanse of uninhabitable, viciously eroded land, wondering what it
Time Arches On
Someone said, “It’s what we’ve done that makes us who we are.” We think it was Jim Croce. And on birthday weekend, we’re shaking up time in a bottle and letting it rip! Arches National Park was the last of
Moab Madness
Moab is a crazy place. Young men named Aaron live out of their van and work odd jobs to enable them to play in this unique landscape in the most extreme ways. Mountain bikers fly through rolling slickrock formations maneuvering