Trips to New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Texas, Oklahoma
It’s been a great year for Our Wander-Filled Life. We experienced some amazing sites throughout the US and had brief jaunts to Mexico and Canada. From Jamestown to the Manhattan Project, from…
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 this post, 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 read “Song of the…
Fixing something when you are on the road is never easy. Getting RV service… even more difficult, even when it is a relatively simple fix. RV Service Problem #1 On Friday of…
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…
Our seven-week road trip through the American West started with us driving from Woodstock, GA to Yosemite National Park (in California). Our route west includes about 1,900 miles of Interstate-40, from Nashville,…
January 2 – Across Oklahoma We drove I-40 towards home today. While our route across the panhandle of Texas, Oklahoma, and into Clarksville, Ark. is WAAAAY better than driving north to St.…
This morning we returned to my (Bonnie’s) uncle’s place to get the full tour of his property. He has a large lot (30-40 acres) just west of Pagosa Springs. In addition to…
We got up and were in Arches National Park (our 100th unit of the National Park Service!) before dawn to take pictures of the sunrise, which was obscured by clouds. On a…
This morning we woke up to about a half-inch of snow on the truck and still falling. Thankfully, it was light snow and didn’t last too long, so no major problems getting…
Today, we continued our quest to visit as many National Park Sites as possible. Ideally, we would visit all of them (currently a little over 400), but a few of them are…
