Archive for March, 2009

Hello Arizona!

Where are we now? NOT in New Mexico. We have finally left “The Land of Enchantment” (it was a nice 4+ months) and have entered Arizona. We’re staying at the Fort Willcox RV Park (a Passport America park) in Willcox, AZ. The park is average for the desert southwest – a small site on gravel [...]

City of Rocks State Park NM

City of Rocks, NM

We are currently camping at City of Rocks State Park in New Mexico. Still in New Mexico?! you say? Yep, that’s right. For some reason, we just can’t seem to get out of this state (well, except for a couple of weeks in extreme West Texas). There were a lot of things we wanted to [...]

GPS – How accurate?

Today we went geocaching at City of Rocks, NM. Geocaching is looking for hidden stuff – anyway thanks to RVGypies for getting us interested in it. We used Cheryl’s Garmin Forerunner GPS 305 and how accurate was it? It took us one foot from the hidden cache (check out the photo). We started looking for [...]

On the road again

We departed T or C and Riverbend Hot Springs on the 19th of Feb. Had to replace a tire on the 5th wheel and then on to Roswell and Alien Country. On the way we stopped at Lincoln and saw where Billy the Kid escaped from jail and shot the sheriff, next we stopped at [...]

Leaving Guadalupe Mountains

Today we traveled from Guadalupe Mountains National Park near Salt Flats, TX to Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX. As we left Pine Springs Campground we got another beautiful view of El Capitan and Guadalupe Peak (the highest point in Texas). The sun peaked through the clouds to shine directly on Capitan and really made [...]

Hiking Devil’s Hall

Why is it that just about every tourist or scenic area in this country has to name some feature or trail Devii’s something-or-other? It seems to me we have an odd fascination with anything Devil-related. Maybe it’s because it sounds so treacherous, dangerous, and spooky? This thought struck me as I hiked Devil’s Hall trail [...]