White Sands National Park

Today we explored White Sands National Park in New Mexico about 40 miles east of Los Cruces.  Wow!  The National Park is completely surrounded by the White Sands Missile Range! The park covers 145,762 acres and is a field of white sand dunes composed of gypsum crystals. This gypsum dunefield is the largest of its kind on Earth, with a depth of about 30 feet, dunes as tall as 60 feet and about 4.5 billion tons of gypsum sand.The sand is so white it is truly blinding in the bright sun.  One of the rangers told us that people get lost…

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Travel update

Due to Covid everyone must get online tickets to tour Carlsbad Cavern.  We had tickets for 9am on Monday!  There are 2 ways to get into the cavern...by elevator that goes down approx. 1000’ or you can walk the Natural Entrance that followed the first explorers’ route, also descending approx. 1000’; we chose the Natural Entrance!  This route enters through a large “natural” hole and the path is similar to hiking the Grand Canyon!  It is hard to explain how steep the paved trail is, with switchback after switchback and fairly dark.  The “natural entrance” travels about a mile and…

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Big Bend/Rio Grande Video

Now that we are back in Richmond, with high speed internet, I was able to complete the Big Bend National Park video.We are now back in Richmond, taking care of details and packing for the sale of our condo.  We arrived to snow and today freezing rain and ice!  We will keep you updated and hopefully will have some adventures while in Richmond!Enjoy our adventure!https://youtu.be/gUq3pOnfJCM

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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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