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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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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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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The Slot, Borrego Springs

The Slot is a narrow siltstone slot canyon near Borrego Springs, CA in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.  We went to do this hike on New Years Day but the crowds were unmanageable.  We returned early one morning and we were the 2nd car in the lot!  There is a 3 mile dirt access road to get the The Slot.   We hiked counter clockwise that forced us up a deep sand road...it was daunting from the bottom looking up, but once we got to the top, it didn’t seem that bad....   The actual slot canyon is about a…

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