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One of those easy days
Day #17 on the road and today was the first day that I had it “easy”. I slept with an electric heater keeping the van at a comfortable temperature. I woke to a full power to get my morning work …
Willcox, AZ
Yesterday I completed the whopping 1.5 hour drive into Arizona. My destination was Willcox where I was able to borrow the local WiFi at the Visitors Center to download a few large files I needed before the weekend. This took …
New Mexico concluded
I realized that my dislike for New Mexico had softened over the past two weeks. Maybe it is true and one reason there are so beer bottles and cans littering New Mexico and Northern Texas; the more you drink the …
Stuck in Deming for a day
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Not that it is a bad thing… I’ve been parked in Deming, NM all day. It was a big work-day with a promotion going on that needed a lot of my attention. By early evening things had settled enough for …
Another mechanical failure in Las Cruces
In Feb 2011 when I was here I had a brake failure on my way out the White Sands Ntnl Monument. While it was a fairly simple fix, and not all that expensive either, it did dampen my confidence in …
White Sands Ntnl Monument
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As I pulled out of the Hollowman AFB area, I was only a few minutes drive away from White Sands Ntnl Monument so I popped in for a quick look before the weather chased me into Las Cruces for the …
Holloman AFB and Lakes
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Just south of Holloman Air Force Base, which sits only a few miles away from Alamogordo, are a few small lagoons which the AFB allows the public to come and bird-watch and/or camp. This is where I happened to pull …
The oldest zoo in the West
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I rolled into Alamogordo, NM late this morning looking for access the the Lincoln National Forest so I could setup camp. The first road that I thought would allow me access was fenced and locked. Though I could hike or …
Cleaning up in El Paso
I drove into El Paso yesterday afternoon only to hang out in a Walmart parking lot for the night and restocked my supplies in the morning. I drove two blocks to a laundry that I spotted coming in to do …
Guadalupe Mountains Ntnl Park
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The Guadalupe Mountains is actually part of an ancient under-sea reef which just happened to be in the way as the mountains were being formed millions of year ago. As the mountains pushed up parts of this reef was exposed …
Carlsbad Caverns Ntnl Park
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Finally, I can check the box that I visited Carlsbad Caverns. This trip was planned two years ago but I did not make it, then again last year but a vehicle breakdown prevented me from making it. This year I …
Finding my way to Carlsbad
For the most part, I spent the day driving. After my morning workload, I left the truck stop which I stayed at last night and drove only an hour before stopping for lunch near Fort Sumner, NM. Bosque Redondo Lake …