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Read more about the article Big Bend National Park, Texas

Big Bend National Park, Texas

After 3 days on the road we finally arrived at Big Bend.  The final 30 miles were very hairy, no map showed us that there was an 18% grade on the route from Presidio to Lajitas! The Tundra got us up the grade with the Airstream but it is nothing we would want to do again!   We stayed in Terlingua in the heart of the desert at Road Runner Travelers, a new RV campground.   Our first full day we drove the Maverick Road, a dirt road that took us to Santa Elena Canyon that had a hike up…

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Wind Caves and Updates

The Wind Caves are in the Carrizo Badlands on the far east side of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.  To access this area you travel on Fish Creek Road, a sand/rock passage about 4 miles. Wind caves are sandstone formations with wind-eroded pockets!  There is a hike to the wind caves, one that is well hidden and it took a few hours to find it!  We had to fly the drone to understand how to get to the trail!  Needless to say, it was too late to start the hike but we saw the caves from the air and the…

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Salvation Mountain & Slab City

Yesterday we ventured out to find “Salvation Mountain” on the southern end of the Salton Sea.  We drove about an hour and a half to the wrong location, Bombay Beach because the GPS was wrong!  Now you are most likely thinking, Bombay Beach sounds nice, fun....nope; it was dismal, extremely depressed with spray painted abandoned RVs and mobile homes!  We googled again and we were about 18 miles from Salvation Mountain!   Salvation Mountain was created by Leonard Knight (1931-2014) in the California Desert near Slab City a Squatter/Art Community.   The “mountain” is made of Adobe bricks, discarded tires,…

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Read more about the article Arroyo Tapiado Mud Caves

Arroyo Tapiado Mud Caves

Milestone: 5 months on the road as of yesterday! We have been to the “Mud Caves” twice so far!  From the main road there is an 8 mile round trip dirt/sand road that requires 4WD.  We had over an hour of video and hundreds of pictures.  We have made a 5:33 minute video....In one of the “cave” sections of the video you may see something run by on the bottom right....we did not notice this until we were going through the videos!  WTH! **Make sure the video is on HD! One of the most fascinating points of interest in the…

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