On Sunday was a glorious, riotous orange and yellow sunrise that lit the east side of the Organs up like neon highlighter. The drive away down the Aguirre Springs road was made begrudgingly, but the border control checkpoint and White Sands were waiting. White Sands is best in the morning or evening, when it is […]
After the spectacular failure of our first camping trip south, I decided to do it again the next weekend and revisit everything I felt we had missed. The plan was to slowly meander back down NM-380 to Carrizozo, camp Friday night at Valley of Fires State Park, wake up to explore the area around Carrizozo, […]
On the Tuesday of the second week of school – as if things weren’t hectic enough – the universe once again threw puppies at us.* I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off for 12 straight hours – school all day, after-care program after school till 5:30p, PSA meeting from 5:30p […]
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 […]
