Road Trip Blogs

Villanueva Pony Outing – February 2013 With a four-day weekend ahead of us, I get up early enough to have a quiet cup of tea before I start packing for our Pony (pop-up tent trailer) trip to Villanueva State Park...

It is my intention to wake up early, but my eyes won’t cooperate.   Shortly after 7:00 a.m., my eyes fly open as colors of sunrise stream through the bedroom window.  Grabbing my robe, I slide my feet into slippers and...

The Voice of the Cello By Angela MacDonald Photos by Carol Carnicom Quiet Walk Photography Like the deep vibrations of a Tibetan monk’s chant, there is something sacred about the voice of a cello. They say that infants feel the...

January 25 -27, 2013 Three Rivers, New Mexico It was exactly one month ago that we passed this way, camping overnight at the Three Rivers National Petroglyph Site, on our way to Carlsbad Caverns. It was my intention to do...

Our backpacking trip to Stewart Lake in the Pecos Wilderness in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico begins with carefully packing our backpacks, doing what we can to keep the weight down.   We have been to Stewart Lake...

Nambe Lake Backpacking Trip –  1,800 foot elevation gain, about 3 ½ miles each way. Friday, September 21, 2012 – We arrive at the Santa Fe ski basin and are on the trail to Nambe Lake a little after 3:00. ...

A black pickup passes me on the dark stretch of highway between Sand Antonio and the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. It is not quite 6:00 AM and only the faintest light on the eastern horizon distinguishes the still...