Category: Vanlife
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Northeast Montana
Missouri Breaks I wanted to tour the core of the Missouri Breaks National Monument. From what we can figure, one would need to either canoe/raft the Missouri downstream from somewhere around Fort Benton, or have a fairly capable off-road vehicle. The ranger at the visitor center suggested that the road through Judith Landing was passable…
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We’re not in Kansas anymore
Or Nebraska, or Iowa… After being thoroughly depressed by the story of the Sand Creek Massacre, we headed east-northeast through Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. Along the way we hit a few wildlife refuges – Kerwin National Wildlife Refuge in Kansas, DeSoto NWR in Iowa, and the Touch the Sky Prairie unit of the Northern Tallgrass…
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Raton – Clayton Volcano Field
Came east on US-64. Saw a sign for Capulin Volcano National Monument. Conquered the rim trail. The Capulin Volcano is a relatively recent volcano in a large volcanic field that stretches across northeast New Mexico from near Raton to Clayton. Raton-Clayton Volcanic Field covers about 7500 sq. miles of New Mexico and smidgens of Colorado…
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Bandelier National Monument
We’re in N. New Mexico, having spent a few days camping at Bandelier National Monument. The Monument preserves the remains of an ancient Pueblo civilization that lived, farmed, and hunted in the area of the Pajarito Plateau. The Pueblo people lived in dwellings carved into the soft volcanic rock (tuff) and built from blocks of tuff.…
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..where the wind comes sweeping down the plain…
That would be Oklahoma, for those of you who are not familiar with the Rogers and Hammerstein musical. There’s nothing down here to slow the wind from the south (yesterday, 30+mph) or the north (today, 30+mph), or any other direction for that matter. I tried eating out on a picnic table last evening. Tough to…
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A Tuskegee Airmen Memorial
While wandering around in South Carolina we ran across a small memorial to WWII’s Tuskegee Airmen, the first black Americans to be trained and deployed as fighter pilots. This is significant because at the time, in spite of prior demonstration of their ability to fight like white men in the Revolutionary, Civil and Indian wars,…
Michael Janke 