Tag: Travel
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Organ Pipes
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument abuts the Mexican border in south-central Arizona. The Monument encompasses and preserves a part of the Sonoran Desert. The landscape is dominated several mountain ranges, the desert floor by saguaro and organ pipe cactii. If you are a fan of desert landscapes and nature, the Monument is worth a visit.…
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The Chiricahua Apaches
In nearly every place I’ve been, I’ve found something interesting to learn about. Sometimes it’s geology, sometimes wildlife, or perhaps history. The last few days in the Chiricahua National Monument are no exception. This area of what is now Arizona and New Mexico was the homeland of the Chiricahua Apaches, led by familiar names like…
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The Tularosa Basin, Bosque del Apache
The Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is famous as a wintering spot for sandhill cranes and snow geese. The refuge consists of a series of large diked ponds adjacent to the Rio Grande, flooded and drained as needed to maintain wildlife habitat. The managed flooding is intended to emulate the natural flooding of the…
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There is something about lava…
We’re back down in New Mexico, spending the night overlooking the lava field in the Valley of Fire National Recreation Area. We didn’t plan to going here – it just happened to be a cheap place to camp close to where we wanted to stop for the night. Seems like we stumbled on to a…
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Travel & Technology – Hits & Misses
I thought it would be useful to enumerate some of the things that worked well and didn’t work well during this last trip. Here’s the first ‘hit and miss’ list. Technology hits: Data plans: We have two ATT phones on a cheap 4GB shared data plan with about 3GB rollover and a Verizon 8800L MiFi…
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Red Flag Days & Home
Because we wanted a few days to clean up and winterize the campervan before it got too cold in Minnesota, we decided to head for home. Our route took us northeast across Kansas & north through Missouri and Iowa. Unfortunately we picked some awfully windy days. We hit a three days of crosswinds (15-30 mph…
Michael Janke 