Category: UT Mighty 5 to MI Uper 2019
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Rolling Condo on the Prairie
John Grisham and his buddy Scott Sowers accompanied us on the two day 550 mile trek from Walsenburg, Colorado through construction laden, jersey wall confined, darting traffic, heavy drive workload, big city Denver, into sleepy/creepy Cheyenne, Wyoming and up to Hot Springs, South Dakota and Wind Cave National Park. On the long, trance-like stretches, they…
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Rocking by the Rockies
From “Life Elevated” in Utah, to “The Land of Enchantment” in New Mexico, it was time for a shot of “Colorful Colorado.” On the one year anniversary of our retirement, we pulled up jacks and coasted off the mountaintop campground in first gear, slipping out of Santa Fe at dawn. We had 250 miles ahead…
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Art and Altitude in Santa Fe
It would have been incomplete to leave New Mexico without a visit to its state capitol of Santa Fe, known as “The City Different” for its history, arts, architecture and outdoor adventure making it National Geographic’s pick as the number one “Sense of Place” in the entire world. Or at least that’s what the Official…
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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 serenity of Radium Springs, we thought NM should call itself the Land of Entrancement. Its…
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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 class III-IV rapids with steep drops and wave walloping fun. Far Flung Adventures has been…
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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 top eco-construction and self-sufficient living company in the world. According to Biotecture pioneer Michael Reynolds,…
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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 taste of the east side – the place you go to do top secret research,…
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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 the first nuclear bomb, is just 80 miles north. With all of that nuclear energy…
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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 miles which surprised us when we added them up today. With all three of us…
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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 down from that mesa and literally carve out a life on the cliffs out of…