Chaco Culture National Historic Park

Chaco Culture National Historic Park

Chaco Culture National Historic Park is a series of architectural ruins built between the years 850 and 1150 by Ancestral Puebloans. In the park, we explored the Pueblo Bonito ruins, Chetro Ketl ruins, and hiked the petroglyph tour with offshoots leading to Kin Kietse...
Roswell, NM

Roswell, NM

The fourth stop on our 2008 summer road trip was Roswell, NM, the All American City. Now, without giving away too much of my own personal life history and to avoid total embarrassment, let’s just say that over the years I’ve developed a bit of a...
Carlsbad Caverns Nat. Park, NM

Carlsbad Caverns Nat. Park, NM

The drive to stop three on our 2008 summer vacation was a mere 42-mile hop across the New Mexico border, northeast to Carlsbad Caverns National Park. It gets hot at Carlsbad, not inside the caverns but at the visitor center, the gift shop, and certainly on the black...