Category: Travel

New Mexico

Backpacking at White Sands

White Sands National Monument is a really unique place.  It features miles and miles of white sand dunes and, well, really nothing else.  The fact that there is nothing else there is what makes it so cool.  It’s a surreal

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New Mexico

Organ Mountains

The Organ mountains are rocky and jagged.  They look cool even from a distance since they jut up seemingly out of nowhere.  The area is supposed to provide good rock climbing although some of the peaks look nearly impossible to

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Travel

Essential travel items (plus travel tips)

I travel a lot both professionally and for fun.  I’m quite familiar with all different modes of travel: flying, road trips, business trips, car camping, tent camping, backpacking, RVing, trips close to home and trips around the globe.  Granted, I’m

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New Mexico

Canyon trail – Bosque del Apache NWR

The Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is famous for the cranes that migrate there for the winters.  On a winter morning at sunrise, the refuge will be crawling with photographers looking to snap pictures of the majestic birds flying

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New Mexico

Manzano Mountains

The Manzano mountains lie about an hour’s drive from my house and yet I have visited them only twice very briefly in the years I’ve lived there.  They are kind of the southern extension of the Sandia Mountains that dominate

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Oklahoma

Black Mesa State Park

Black Mesa State Park is in the Oklahoma panhandle, above the Texas panhandle, both of which are known for being flat, hot, sunny, and perhaps dull places to have to travel through.  Most of these adjectives are probably actually true

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Oklahoma

Sequoyah State Park

They say first impressions are strong and the curvy, tree-lined road that leads into the Sequoyah State Park once you turn off of the main highway makes for a great first impression.  It’s the sort of road that has you

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New Mexico

Clayton Lake State Park New Mexico

I feel a need to add ‘New Mexico’ to the title because there is also a Clayton Lake State Park in Oklahoma, which I have also been to.  Clayton Lake State Park is probably most famous for having dinosaur footprints. 

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Oklahoma

Spavinaw State Park

Spavinaw State Park is one of eight that makes up what is collectively known as Grand Lake State Park.  I headed out there with kind of low expectations: I could see from Google Maps that it wasn’t a very expansive

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Oklahoma

Great Salt Plains State Park

Great Salt Plains State Park always makes me think of my first night there.  I was excited to be there for the first time, and I walked down to the shore of the lake right at sunset and took dozens

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