Our annual tip to meet friends for fishing — this time in New Mexico. It gives us the opportunity to travel around the country in our truck camper, visiting national parks, monuments, and other park units along the way.
This is part of a series called National Park/Monument Slam 2018 Since I had to wait two weeks for my post-surgery checkup, we decided to work our way slowly, taking in two last national parks (Capitol Reef in UT and Great Basin in NV). Due to my incapacitated arm, Deb had to do all the…
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This is part of a series called National Park/Monument Slam 2018 After surgery was scheduled, we had basically a week to kill. Luckily, we were staying with friends in Breckenridge, CO (which would also the comfortable place I would recover post-surgery). But a week was too long to sit around. Consequently, we slightly modified our…
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This is part of a series called National Park/Monument Slam 2018 The drive from Kemmerer, WY to Grand Junction, CO is a beautiful, windy two lane road that takes you through some beautiful scenery and some pretty exciting mountain passes. Our destination was Colorado National Monument. I hadn’t been there since I was in college…
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This is part of a series called National Park/Monument Slam 2018 After a long drive from Craters of the Moon, we found ourselves in Kemmerer, WY, population 2600. At one time, it was a very large coal producer and, in fact, the first J.C. Penney was started there as a company store. And it is…
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This is part of a series called National Park/Monument Slam 2018 We spent a few days at this national monument. Initially, we thought this would be a “drive by,” but this really turned out to be an amazing place. If you’ve spent time on the Big Island then sure, you’ve seen lava and volcanos. But…
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This is part of a series called National Park/Monument Slam 2018 So, it’s time for our annual National Park/Monument Slam, this time focusing on the park units we had missed in ID, WY, CO, and beyond. Our trip started out with a need to get a few things on the rig fixed. Consequently, we spent…
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