Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
I’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 […]
Read More Salinas Pueblo Missions National MonumentToday we got up at at about 7:00 and packed up the room and we went to a amazing Mexican restaurant. My mom and I shared a breakfast burrito and fried banana 🍌. Then we went to the Georgia O’Keefe museum. I walked around with my mum because we go the same pace in art […]
Read More It is day 5 and we saw petroglyphs and more art“I’m walking on sunshine, And don’t it feel good” – Katrina and the Waves No, no it doesn’t feel good at all. I mentioned previously that my biggest fear for #RTXVIII was heat. Today was hot, but I’m a bit concerned that I may have used that title too soon since there are likely many […]
Read More Walking on SunshineWe woke up in our “shitty hotel” in Santa Fe. (Exact words Zak squeezed in after “I can’t wait to get out of this…” last night during a heated conversation with the manager during a very unhappy experience at the Homewood Suites. But we got the room compped and they were both polite to one […]
Read More Day 5: Georgia O’Keefe Museum and Petroglyph NMThis morning when we woke up we went straight out for breakfast. We went to a cute little restaurant which had very delicious (and spicy) food. I had a breakfast burrito with red chilli sauce. It also came with potatoes and a bakery basket which was amazing. In it was 2 banana muffins, 2 corn […]
Read More Georgia O’Keefe and Petroglyphs National MonumentWe so did Day 4 well! I didn’t wake up in the best mood. Last night’s accommodations didn’t quite meet my standard and the free continental breakfast didn’t appeal to me at all. Fortunately, Zak searched for the nearest Starbucks and found one not too out of the way on our way to Bandelier. The […]
Read More Day 4: Bandelier and the Manhattan ProjectToday we got up at 7:00 and got ready for today. Then we grabbed some breakfast and were off to bandaler National monument. We got right on the shuttle and about 20 minutes later we got to our stop the Frey trail. Of course we were the only ones who got off. I think it […]
Read More Day 4 and we climbed up a lot of really tall ladders.“I got that sunshine in my pocket Got that good soul in my feet” – Justin Timberlake Today’s stop, Bandelier National Monument, was one of those parks that left me wanting more. As I mentioned a couple days ago our original plan to backpack here had to be nixed due to the high fire danger. […]
Read More Can’t Stop The Feeling!Today we woke up before our alarms (except for mom who slept in.) We got ready and headed to Bandelier stopping at Starbucks for coffee. We got to White Rock Visitors Center and took the 9:30 bus into the monument. we got off early went on the Frey Trail. It was a mile and a […]
Read More Bandelier National Monument“Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you” – Gordon Lightfoot With three NPS sites in one day, day three of RTXVIII was absolutely packed. Molly and I are sitting by a lovely pool on a lovely night outside Santa Fe, NM, but I’m exhausted so I’m going to do my best to […]
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