There are tiny, fragrant yellow flowers blooming on bushes along the road I’ve walked a hundred times. In the strong, spring wind they bustle about, and their scent – something like jasmine and lilac combined, but more pungent, punched with desert – intoxicates you until there is only summer and mountain crests and the sound […]
At the end of September, a bunch of my cousins and my sister and I got together in Corolla, North Carolina to relive the old Outer Banks vacations of our childhood. We rented a house two blocks from the beach, awoke for the sunrise, played in the waves, and laid in the sand every day, […]
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, […]
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. […]
