Last Saturday we went south, planning to camp outside of Cloudcroft and then spend Sunday at the Hatch Chile Festival, our first camping trip since March. Everything went awry. At 11a, when our key lime Escape was still sitting at the base of the trailer steps, I knew it would be a trying weekend. We […]
Category Archives: New Mexico
Last night, we took the dogs and walked up the loop road. It rained in the afternoon, so everything was fresh and on-the-verge of stormy. That is my favorite situation out here: heavy clouds and the sweet light that comes at that golden hour of sunrise or sunset and turns everything a crisp, buttery yellow. […]
We took a drive yesterday down NM-117. It winds south through El Malpais National Monument past lava flows and big sandstone monoliths, and then spits you out in the middle of nowhere. At that point you can see probably 50 miles in any direction, southeast to the Datil Mountains, northwest to the cinder cones along […]