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City of Rocks State Park

The City of Rocks is a New Mexico State Park located about 30 miles northwest of Deming, NM on state highway 180. It is in a bit of an odd place – just normal country. Then, all of the sudden, is this area covered in huge boulders. It really gets your attention! From Wikipedia: “The… [Read More]

Rockhound State Park

The Rockhound New Mexico State Park is just a few miles southeast of Deming, NM. From Wikipedia: “It is named for the abundance of minerals in the area, and visitors can search for quartz crystals, geodes, jasper, perlite, and many other minerals. The park is located in the Florida Mountains, a range of low mountains… [Read More]

Yucca and Rocks

A very pretty view out my front door.  Yucca plants and massive rocks! Far from the cold and white that much of our wonderful country is seeing right now.  I love the desert and am thankful to be here! Happy New Year!

Love my Toad

The time for a toad had come. In the RV world, the vehicle being towed behind an RV is called a “toad”.  A great play on words and funny to boot. The trips that I have made to date with the motorhome (Shaneeda) have been without a toad, only my bikes.  During the last couple… [Read More]

Elephant Butte Camping

I’m spending the week at the Monticello Point campground in the New Mexico State Park known as Elephant Butte Lake. The goal was to get out of the cold-ish weather at home and continue proving the ability to live and work from the motorhome.  I think I have succeeded although a few of the days… [Read More]

Backcountry Flying/Camping Trip 2013 – Part 3

Note from JD: This is the third installment of this trip. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. The day dawned spectacular on Saturday so there was no doubt that lots of flying was on the agenda. The first order of business??  Breakfast, of course. Breakfast was being hosted at the Big Creek airstrip… [Read More]

Quasimoto MTB Ride

I found myself at the Hilso Trailhead on a spectacular Saturday morning wondering what I should do!  I knew exactly! A mountain bike ride on some of the most spectacular trails on which I have ever ridden. I’ve written about this area before.  It is south-east of Gallup, NM in the Cibola National Forest.  The… [Read More]

Backcountry Flying/Camping Trip 2013 – Part 2

Note from JD: Part 1 of this trip is here. Friday dawned cool, cloudy, and wet. We launched as early as possible to start our exploring adventure but there just wasn’t enough cloud clearance to get very far. When the clouds are sitting at mountain top level, it is pretty easy to fly up and… [Read More]

Backcountry Flying/Camping Trip 2013 – Part 1

I reported on last year’s trip to the Idaho backcountry here.  We had such a great time that we decided to do it again this year!  We is me and my neighbor with a Vans RV-4 (among eight other airplanes that he has built himself). I’m late posting this report – we actually made the… [Read More]

MTB Ride: Hilso Trails in Gallup, NM – Part 2

Note: This is the second part of the adventure.  See part one here. Due to the rain last evening, I decided to stick to the more heavily used trails – at least compared to what I was on yesterday.  Mud isn’t the end of the world, even for a guy from the desert southwest, but… [Read More]