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The White Cliffs – Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument
After imagining ourselves living in ancient public housing blocks, it was time to recoup, do laundry, and talk to a mechanic about a small coolant leak in the Westy, so we reserved an AirBnb South of Sante Fe for a couple of days. It al... -
Ancient Apartment Block – Bandelier National Monument
After taking in arguably the ancient world's most important central hub, our journey took us East, into the Valles Caldera on our way to Santa Fe. We planned our route through the city of Jemez Springs to have us pass by a wonderful loo... -
Economy and Scale – Chaco Canyon National Historic Park
Thoroughly impressed by what the ancient Pueblo Indians created, we headed towards the more well-known ancestral cultural home, Chaco Canyon. This was high on our list of places to visit, but boy was the road out there ever wretched. N... -
Rebuilding the Past – Aztec Ruins National Monument
After the immersive and engaging Mersa Verde, it was time for us to revisit New Mexico, as we still had Santa Fe and Taos marked on the map. Our path South brought us to a small ruins I had never heard of, but proved to be an exceptiona... -
Monadnock of Fame – Shiprock
With one of the regions oldest Navajo dwellings fresh in our minds, we headed Northeast towards the Four Corners. I had been to the Four Corners monument as a kid and it's cartographically neat, but the more we talked about it, the more... -
Fun to Visit, Impossible to Spell – Albuquerque
Clean and thankful to not live in a cave in a wall, we drove into Albuquerque to see the old town, relax, and eat some things with jalapenos in them. The latter we took care of the way into town by stopping at a really swanky old 50s st... -
20 Years’ Worth of Mystery – Gila Cliff Dwellings
The glory of the White Sands behind us, we had a couple of days before a house sit in Albuquerque. It was hard to decide what to see, as the area South of Albuquerque holds so much to see, but we settled on the Gila Cliff dwellings beca... -
Soft and Soluble – White Sands National Monument
After the immensity of the underground, our next stop was high on our list of places to see in the US. We had both heard so much about White Sands that we would have traveled hundreds of miles out of the way to make sure we saw it. Act... -
I’m Not Stiller, Either – Carlsbad Caverns
After Austin, time restraints unfortunately made us have to skip Big Bend National Park (a huge disappointment) and burn rubber through Texas. We did, however, earn a boondocking badge of honor by staying in a Walmart parking lot in the...
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