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Beginning Our Texas Trek: Hueco Tanks, Fort Davis, & Seminole Canyon

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Saturday, May 4th, 2019

We’ve spent a lot of time in Texas in our six years of cross-country travels. Because it’s directly on our route to Florida each winter, we find ourselves trekking across the state every year. It’s a good thing we like it. There’s a whole lotta Texas between New Mexico and Louisiana, precisely 879 miles if […]

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Categories : Texas, Travel
Tags : Cave Kiva, Davis Mountains State Park, Fate Bell Pictograph, Hueco Tanks State Park, Jornada Mogollon, Seminole Canyon State Park, White Shaman Pictograph, White Shaman Tour

In Search Of The Starry-Eyed Man: Hueco Tanks State Park

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018

In late December, we made our third trip in five years to Hueco Tanks State Park. This time, I was not leaving until we got to see the Starry-Eyed Man. Located in a remote canyon 30 miles northeast of El Paso, the park contains a unique assortment of pictographs left behind by the ancient peoples who […]

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Categories : Texas, Travel
Tags : campground Hueco Tanks State Park, Cave Kiva, guided tour Hueco Tanks, hiking Hueco Tanks, Hueco Tanks State Park, Starry Eyed Man Mask

Hueco Tanks, Texas

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Saturday, December 8th, 2012

“Hike about one-quarter mile, take a right at the duck, and head for the alligator on the horizon. Scramble another quarter mile, and walk straight from the alligator’s mouth into the cave. It’s a tight squeeze to get into the cave, but it’s worth it.” These were the directions the ranger gave us to Cave […]

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Categories : Texas, Travel

A Wonderland Of Rocks: Chiricahua National Monument

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018

We’ve been wanting to hike the trails in the Chiricahua National Monument for years. Known for its splendid assortment of hoodoos, balanced rocks, and spires, the monument is part of a sky island, an isolated mountain range that rises above the desert in the far southeastern corner of Arizona. We planned three nights in Bonita […]

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Categories : Arizona, Travel
Tags : Bonita Canyon Campground, Chiricahua National Monument, Cochise Head, Echo Canyon Trail, Ed Riggs Trail, Faraway Ranch, Heart of Rocks Trail, hiking Chiricahua Mountains, Massai Point, Silver Spur Trail

Wishing You The Blessings Of The Season

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Sunday, December 24th, 2017

Although our blog is still lingering on Vancouver Island, we’re pausing for a moment in the present to wish you a joyous holiday season. The past few weeks we’ve traveled from the Pacific Northwest, down the coast of California, to our current location of West Texas. One of the fun things about traveling at this […]

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Categories : Musings

Birding The Chiricahuas

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Friday, June 6th, 2014

The forecast was for “blowing dust.” “What the heck kind of forecast is that?” I asked Eric. We found out. We were camped in early May in the midst of a barren dust bowl in far southwest New Mexico, 200 miles from our last stop at Hueco Tanks in Texas. The winds blew for two […]

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Categories : Arizona, New Mexico, Travel
Tags : birding Chiricahuas, Cave Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mountains, Elegant Trogon, Paradise Arizona, Portal Arizona, Rusty's RV Ranch

Westward Ho!

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014

We’ve traversed Texas many times in our cross-country journeys on our way back and forth to Florida to visit family. We’re always looking for new places to explore—but as far as we’ve been able to figure out, there are only a handful of places worth stopping in the 500-mile drive from the Hill Country to […]

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Categories : Texas, Travel
Tags : Balmorrhea State Park, Hueco Tanks State Park, Jornada Mogollon, Kiva Cave, South Llano State Park

Fall Brilliance In New Hampshire

By Laurel (AKA chickadee)
Monday, April 18th, 2022

When I was in my early 30s, I lived in Boston for almost a decade. New Hampshire was my favorite place to go for fall color, and I’ve long wanted to return to share that experience with Eric. In mid-October, we spent a week immersed in the fiery reds and golds of New Hampshire’s autumn […]

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Categories : New Hampshire, Travel
Tags : Barley and Salt, Castle in the Clouds, Cotton Valley Rail Trail, Fall color in New Hampshire, Franconia Notch, Kancamagus Highway, Lake Winnipesaukee

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