Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
“I’m on my way; Driving at ninety down those country lanes; Singing to ‘Tiny Dance’” – Ed Sheeran With only one NPS site on the agenda for today it seems like it should have been a low key day. Since that one site had a visitor’s center as well as three other units and we […]
Read More Castle on the HillToday the rest of my family got up at 6:00 but I slept in until 6:30. After we were all up and ready. We drove off to three mission nation monument. When first got there we watched the 14 minute film because the ruins were not open yet. Then we drove to the first stop […]
Read More Day 6 and we did a lot of driving and we also saw a lot ruins.This day could be described as the perfect cross country road trip day. We did a little National Park stuff, a lot of beautiful driving, and two quirky gems. I’ve learned so much about the Ancestrial Puebloans and the Spanish missionaries in the 1600s in New Mexico. This was a topic in history I knew […]
Read More Day 6: Salinas Pueblo Missions, Smoky Bear Memorial, and Roswell International UFO Museum and Research CenterI’ve been in more churches this trip than I have been in my life. Again we woke up ate breakfast and got to the park right as they opened. This monument is actually 4 sites. The visitors center, Abo, Quarai, and Gran Quivira. We started by going to the visitors center where we got junior […]
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