Category Archives: Going South, 2012

We are camped tonight in James Kipp Recreation Area, a BLM site in Montana along the Missouri River and Highway 191.  There are about thirty campsites here, and it is reasonably busy, perhaps 1/3 full, which is interesting, as it … Continue reading →

Well, we are definitely heading north.  The temperature dropped all day as we drove to Casper, Wyoming along I 25.  It was about 17 C at noon and now is about 10 C tonight.  Part of that is due to the … Continue reading →

We left White Rock, New Mexico this morning, and drove south at first towards Santa Fe, then followed Interstate 25 north to just south of Colorado Springs, Colorado.  We are camped high up on the side of Cheyenne Mountain, just … Continue reading →

It was a very nice fall day as we walked the trail down from the Bandelier Visitor Center to the upper falls of Frijoles Creek.  The fall colours, gold of the cottonwoods, reds of the gambel oaks, the dark green … Continue reading →

It was a day in both the past and the present.  We rode the free bus in to Los Alamos this morning, arriving before any of the museums opened, so we just walked a bit and then stopped at Ashley … Continue reading →

We left Albuquerque this morning and drove to the small town of White Rock, New Mexico, which is just south of Los Alamos, and the entrance to the Bandelier National Monument.  Our plan was to camp in Juniper Campground inside … Continue reading →

We went in to the area known as “Old Town Albuquerque” this morning, and parked in the Museum parking lot.  Since I didn’t have the necessary five dollar bill for parking, I went in to the museum to get change.  The clerk … Continue reading →

We spent the morning looking at some of the petroglyphs inscribed into the rock varnish on the basalt rocks of Petroglyph National Monument.  We had expected to see a few.  That is an understatement, for there were hundreds of them. … Continue reading →

No picture today, as none was taken.  That must almost be a first on this trip! We drove here today on I40, a not too busy interstate, and stopped at the Camping World store where we bought a few things … Continue reading →

We didn’t have much information about El Malpais National Monument, but I wanted to go there as I had read that it had good hiking.  We drove the approximately 40 miles south of Grants, New Mexico passing a few signs … Continue reading →