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, […]
In other parts of the country, the month of September means school, changing leaves, or possibly the observation of Teddy Bear Day (a real thing). To New Mexicans, however, September is synonymous with one thing: CHILE. Red, green, fresh, fired, hot, mild, however you like it. Drive across the Rio Grande bridge in Albuquerque with […]
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 […]
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 […]
