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Today we visited Stratford upon Avon. That is the ruins of the historic Stratford Hotel on Avon Avenue in the ghost town of Shakespeare near Lordsburg, New Mexico. A small spring here in southern New Mexico served as a source of water for travelers at least since the...
See Park Video White Sands National Monument is beyond amazing. Yes, it's a giant sandbox that totally dwarfs the toy front end loader that someone left behind. With Paul, as our local guide, we stopped at the visitor center then drove out beyond the end of the...
Paused for the night near the town of Tucumcari, New Mexico. Last night the evening sky was gorgeous. This morning we took advantage of the fact that this KOA offers meals and walked to the office for breakfast. While we were enjoying our coffee and eggs we chatted...
One of the treats of visiting Santa Fe is the opportunity to immerse ourselves in the luxury of the hot tubs at Ten Thousand Waves. Since we kept missing the natural hot springs as we traveled through the mountainous areas we decided to indulge ourselves. We enjoyed a...
Routine maintenance is just one of those things. Keeping the wheel bearings in good working order is an important part of being able to roll down the road. Earlier this trip we stopped and had them lubricated. Today, after calling ahead, we stopped at Santa Fe RV and...
After getting ourselves unpacked and repacked, we joined Bill for coffee at Las Chivas then re-provisioned at the market at The Agora. We bid Bill goodbye then headed north on US-285. We first planned to camp at Navajo Lake State Park, but wanted to log a few more...
It's the beginning of the longest day of the year! It's fun knowing that we'll celebrate it in Santa Fe. This evokes memories of a visit here at winter solstice when to go for a walk we had to bundle up against the cold and snow. Instead of that, today we will be...
After our 18K step round trip walk to the coffee shop this morning and showers, the day for the three of us was centered around errands and communications with family members. We needed to locate a particular flapper (the plumbing kind) and a specialty battery for one...
What a enchanting evening. We basked in the relaxing atmosphere of Ten Thousand Waves Japanese Spa. If you've never experienced it, put it on your list. We enjoyed a soak in the Kobuta, one of their wooden hot tubs. We attempted the cold plunge but neither of us...
See Park Video Early this morning we returned to Carlsbad Caverns and this time we entered through the Natural Entrance, past the Bat Flight Amphitheater where we remember watching the bat flight at dusk one evening in September 1974. No bats there today though....
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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Ever since its debut on Broadway the two of us have wanted to see “Wicked the Musical”. Today we realized that dream. In the Apollo Victoria Theater in London’s West End we were witness to the incredible prequel to The Wizard of Oz, the story of the Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.
London’s National Portrait Gallery’s temporary exhibition, “Six Lives: The Stories of Henry VIII’s Queens” presents an amazing collection of portraits, jewelry, personal effects, books, costumes, and more to illustrate not only the lives of the six women who married the second Tudor king, but the effort across five centuries to keep their memory alive.
The purpose of our trek to Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham in the southwest of London was to see a recently recovered bronze bust of the Emperor Caligula but we discovered so much more in the recently restored 18th Century “little Gothic castle” built by Horace Walpole.