From City of Rocks our first real stay was Dead Horse State Park, thirty miles or so outside of Moab, Utah. Quite a ways from City of Rocks, 575 miles, so we planned to make the trip in three days. Our first day was from City of Rocks up to St. Johns, Arizona. Total travel [...]
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If you have heard of City of Rocks but never been there then maybe you would have the same initial impression as we did. Having seen a few close up photographs and heard a few brief descriptions of the park I had an idea of what we would see. I expected large formations of rocks [...]
On the day that we rolled into Pancho Villa we weren’t even planning to be there. We had started the day at Oliver Lee wondering whether we should weather the next two days of high winds and dust storms there or elsewhere. At Oliver Lee we were dry and on the slopes of the Sacremento [...]
The destination from Brantley Lake was Oliver Lee State Park just south of Alamogordo and therefore just east of White Sands National Monument. Since we were north of Carlsbad we opted to take a northern route up to Artesia before turning west to cross the Sacramento Mountains. Our neighbors at Fort Davis, Tom and Pat, [...]
We first entered Texas on February 5th and didn’t leave until March 2nd. Almost a full month in the state even if it was the shortest month. We easily could have stayed for another. Where we come from you don’t really hear a lot about visiting / vacationing in Texas. Sometimes you hear that Austin [...]
