Tag: national-parks

• To Big Bend

  

  We left Carlsbad near sunrise, which was around 7 am in the Mountain timezone of New Mexico, but 8 am directly South about an hour’s drive away in Texas, which is in Central timezone. A quirk of the artificial boundaries we like to place on space and time. Our destination was a Hipcamp we had…

  2024 Eclipse Trip

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• New Mexico National Parks

  

  We stayed another cold, windy night outside of Las Cruces, New Mexico at the Preshistoric Trackways National Monument and so the day started out with a short hike there. This monument is quite different from others we’ve visited. It isn’t made up of stunning vistas or untouched wilderness. Rather, it’s only a few miles from…

  2024 Eclipse Trip

  carlsbad-caverns-national-park, caves, national-parks, new-mexico, travel