We headed south to stay warm in light of the snow in Northern New Mexico. But we were shocked by the sad scene of Elephant Butte Lake. There is no lake!!! Only a small river or should I say creek…
After a dreary and rainy day, the sun rose behind the hills signaling a warmer day at Pueblo de Cochiti. In the mid-morning, when the temperature rose to about 50ºF, we headed to the nearby Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument…
We took the train to Santa Fe to attend the Indigenous People’s Day Celebration on Monday, October 8. As the center for Native Americans, Santa Fe designated the second Monday of October as Indigenous People’s Day in 2016. It was…
We drove up to the Sangre de Cresto Mountains hoping to have a birds eye view of Santa Fe. But the fall colors of aspens were more beautiful than the aerial view of Santa Fe. At an elevation of about…
We left Utah and went to Colorado on I-70, then took Highway 50 to Montrose to visit Black Canyon of the Gunnison National State Park. The 53-mile long Black Canyon of the Gunnison has one of the best exposures of…
Turning right to Utah Highway 24 at Torrey, we drove through the center of Capital Reef National Park. The main feature of the park is the 100-mile-long Waterpocket Fold stretching from north to south. It is termed as a monocline…
Scenic Byway 12 in Utah is absolutely one of the best scenic drives we have been to. It connects Bryce Canyon National Park and Capitol Reef National Park. We got on this road from the west. Red Canyon has stunning…
We stayed at Kodachrome Basin State Park campground for our visit to the mesmerizing Bryce Canyon National State Park. There were no cell phone services nor Internet in the basin. It was a forty-minute drive to Bryce Canyon from our…
We left Grand Teton today heading south on Highway 89. The Star Valley Scenic Byway was beautiful with colors of yellow, red and green trees and bushes. In a valley near Smoot, Wyoming, we were awed to see thousands of…
In the last two days of our stay in Gros Ventre Campground at Grand Teton, we finally experienced the real wild west. In addition to the two moose we saw the other night, we saw eleven more moose, including a…