No sleep ’til Brooklyn

There comes a time in two perfectly reasonable people’s lives when they decide that driving cross-country to New York is a sensible thing to do. “Now wait a minute” I hear you exclaim “Aren’t you driving to Argentina? That is quite a lot further away from Alaska than New York and therefore a slightly madder […]

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White Sands

White Sands National Monument is a unique place, resting between to mountain ranges in a valley near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The area was first explored by U.S. Cavalry in the mid-1800s. You access it from Highway 70 about 16 miles… Read More ›

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Savoring Santa Fe

I have always been a bit fascinated by the Southwestern United States. Although I had traveled through the area several times as a child, for some reason my parents never found the area interesting enough to actually spend time in. … Continue reading →
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Prone to Wander: Less Krakauer, More Bryson

Unless you’re disposed to picking up hitchhikers, you typically know your traveling companions when starting a road trip.
I usually don’t have this luxury.  Most of my trips involve me traveling thousands of miles with complete strangers to areas of the globe where I...
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Observations from a First-time Overlander

My family has always been tent campers and backpackers. We love roughing it. When the gang at Central Overland invited me to head to New Mexico and Colorado for ten days I jumped at the chance, but I didn’t think I’d be exploring random backcountry roads in a Lexus with heated...
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New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns National Park

Buried 80 stories deep in the remote Chihuahuan Desert lies a subterranean dreamworld filled with fascinating rock formations that will leave you speechless. New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a system of over 300 limestone caves that descend from the surface through a...
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