Today’s adventure in the Lone Star State took us to Big Bend National Park. The park encompasses portions of the lush Chihuahuan desert, the Chisos mountains, several canyons, and the Rio Grande River! Big Bend’s name comes from the U-shape the Rio…
Alpine, a tiny oasis in the Texan desert
For the first time in our 60+ day trip, we had a difficult time finding something to do with our time today. We arrived in Alpine, Texas—about 45 minutes outside Big Bend National Park, which brought us here—this afternoon around 3PM.…
The day we journeyed to the center of the earth (almost)
Our trip has taken us up mountains, over streams, into cities, through deserts, on lakes, and around giant sequoia trees. Today, it took us 750 feet underground in Carlsbad Caverns National Park!
Greetings from Carlsbad, New Mexico!
This morning we checked out of our room in El Paso after spending a total of about 12 hours in it. Leaving the city via I-10 east, we had our first good daytime look at the area and couldn’t believe how depressed…
White Sands is so sandy…and white!
Greetings from El Paso, Texas, our digs for the night. It’s been…interesting. First, Google tried to take us on a closed road when we were 4 minutes from the hotel. When it finally rerouted us, our 4-minute drive became 29…
A museum in the desert, of sorts
This will be a short post because I just finished sorting through about a thousand photos of hummingbirds (!), and now it’s late. Today we hung out at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. Lori came across it online yesterday, and it…
Plenty of planes and a Titan II, too!
And now for something completely different…at least as far as our cross-country trip is concerned. Instead of taking in mountains, streams, forests, deserts, and canyons, today we took in planes, helicopters, and nuclear warheads! It turns out that Tucson area is…
Birds & bees of Saguaro National Park
We spent our first day in Tucson, Arizona, touring the eastern half of Saguaro National Park. This is easily the strangest national park we’ve visited so far. It’s essentially just miles and miles of saguaro cacti (and the various critters that live…
Prickly teddy bears!
Today we began our drive back east! We left Twentynine Palms, California and drove six hours to Tuscon, Arizona where we will be spending a few days checking out the cool things around the area. We are both looking forward…
The unique charm of Joshua Tree National Park
Tucked into the southeastern corner of California is Joshua Tree National Park, our adventure destination for today. The park gives visitors a chance to experience two unique deserts: the Mojave and the Colorado. Each has its own unique plants and…