A collection of summaries about road trips enjoyed or endured.
I went to bed last night itching to go somewhere this morning. With reports of possible snow in eastern Arizona, I heavily considered going to Canyon de Chelly near Chinle. After all, in fine weather, it is just a three and a half hour drive from Albuquerque. But then the alarm clock went off...
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When I went to bed last night, I was considering a morning road trip, just to get out of the house a bit with the camera, with some hopes I might find some lovely snowy scene to photograph. I wasn’t committed, but it sounded like a nice morning pursuit. When I awoke around 6...
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For several weekends, I have toyed with the thought of visiting the ruins at the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, which is located southeast of Albuquerque down by Mountainair. Tim at work had told me about them a few years ago, and my dad had mentioned we had probably visited them in the past,...
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If September 2nd rolls around and you are in central New Mexico looking for something to do, consider attending the Feast Day of San Estevan at Acoma Pueblo. I offer this up as a native New Mexican who, up until three Sundays ago, had never attended a formal feast day at any pueblo before....
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The day started at 5:45 this morning when my eyes opened 15 minutes before the alarm went off. Today was Bosque del Apache day. I was on the road by 6:20 after I got clothes and camera gear together and the cats taken care of for the day and the coffee made. I figured...
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I awoke early this morning having considered last night taking a drive up to the Valle Caldera to check on the trees, but at 6AM, that particular urge left me. I went back to bed and enjoyed another hour and a half of needed sleep. The morning passed in gross misappropriation. By 1, I...
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I wanted to see some fall colors, so I decided to drive out to the Jemez northwest of Albuquerque today. My drive dropped me first at Perea Nature Trail, a hidden attraction at the corner of 550 and the turnoff to San Ysidiro and the Jemez Valley. The trail offered a nice walk through...
Read more →I wanted to get out today with the camera, but my original idea to go down to White Sands and Alamogordo lost its luster when I learned White Sands was closed for sunrises, except on special photographer days twice a year. I just felt I’d do better going down there on one of those...
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I was born in Albuquerque and have spent most of my life living here. I’ve also spent time in most every weekday in the last nine years on I-25, driving north and south to and from work. It’s odd, then, that it was only a few years ago that I actually noticed the three...
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This post is a followup to yesterday’s bit on the Magdalena Village library, a.k.a. the Depot. If you step across the street from the Magdalena Library, you face the village’s hardware store and HVAC specialist. Clark Brown owns Eagle Hardware Supply, but if you try to find his business by the building, just look...
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With some free time this weekend, I headed south on Saturday, and after a short stop in Socorro, I ended up going on over and spending some time in Magdalena, NM. Not knowing anything about the place, I left the village with a handful of interesting photographs and a tidbits about the village. What...
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After going to Moab early this summer to visit Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, I told myself I needed to go see some of the other amazing Southwest sites I’d long heard about but put off visiting. As the summer rolled on, a cheery weekend day in August gave me enough incentive to day...
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If you live in Albuquerque and ever find yourself with an open Saturday and a hankering for adventure, word has it there is plenty open...
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