Southwest

White Sands National Park is America’s newest national park and is easily one of the most unique places we have ever been to. While we have been to other sites dedicated to dunes,…

Located about two hours from the nearest city in southern New Mexico, Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument is not a place that you will find by accident. It’s certainly worth the drive,…

 I just couldn’t help it. I walked around another bend and the view staggered me. Hiking in Chiricahua National Monument just seemed to do this to us. “Wow. Just wow.”  Bonnie was…

As part of our quest to see all of the national park sites, we finally made it to El Paso, Texas on Christmas Day 2019. With just one park site, Chamizal National…

It was shortly after lunch when we pulled off the pavement on to one of the dirt roads in Big Bend National Park. While the temperature was a balmy 71, we knew…

When we first started planning our visit to Big Bend National Park, I felt completely overwhelmed. To be fair, I suppose planning a first visit to most anywhere is overwhelming, but this…

For my Song of the Open Road, I am taking a bit of a different direction and I hope you will indulge me. In my American Literature class, I assign students to…

Great Basin National Park is not a place that you will run across accidentally. You have to want to go there. And you should want to go there. Mountains, caves, a glacier,…

“There’s not a lot out here in Nevada.” “Nope, there sure isn’t.” That was our conversation driving from Lee Vining, California to Caliente, Nevada. That and will we have enough gas to…

Today is an important day. It’s June 8, 2017, the 101st anniversary of the Antiquities Act of 1906. The law gave the President of the United States the ability to set aside…