Tag: Vanlife
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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,…
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… to the Sea
It would be a shame to cross half the country, camp within an hour-and-a-half of the ocean and not get our feet wet. So we did. Edisto Beach State Park, on the Atlantic south of Charleston, is on an ‘island’ of sorts, surrounded by salt marshes. It’s somewhat quiet in winter and out of the…
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Congaree
We’ve spent the last few days camping in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Part of my half-thought out plan for this trip was to check out one of the few National Parks in the Eastern US, Congaree National Park. The park preserves thousands of acres of hardwood bottomlands, some of which are old growth. In…
Michael Janke 