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Week #49 – 52 ~ Recap
Today marks the end of Week #52. We originally planned to be on the road until now, but back in February when we were planning out May, we realized we were just wasting time until we were able to move back into our house on July 1. So we contacted our renters and they were
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Go east young woman ~ Central Texas awaits
San Antonio lies due east and a world away from Big Bend National Park. Driving towards the sunrise, the Chihuahuan Desert gradually gives way to farm country and the hill country of central Texas. Small towns turn into larger communities and eventually the urban centers of San Antonio and Austin sprawl outward with the ubiquitous
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Week #48 ~ Recap
1,232 driving miles, 1,058 flight miles, two flights, 18 relatives, 2 family friends, 1 metro ride, 1 graduation party, 1 friend moving to the coast, 3 states, $948 OVER budget. We have missed our people and this week was full of reconnecting, telling stories, and hanging out at the tables of relatives and friends. We
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Week #47 ~ Recap
1322 driving miles, 2 great cities, 12 oysters, 1 national park, 3 roadrunners, 1 javelina, 1 UNESCO World Heritage site, 2 states, 2 hours waiting in line for amazing barbecue, $73.15 OVER budget. What do you do in your next to last travel week of the Big Meander? That is all. Next week; Kansas, a
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Big Bend and West Texas Weird
This week our Meander wandered into the Big Bend area of West Texas and one of the most uniquely weird small towns in America ~ Marfa Texas. Marfa is pretty heavy on the art galleries, nice restaurants, and relatively expensive hotel rooms for a place in the middle of nowhere. Surrounded by scenic sagebrush,
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New Mexico ~ as above so below
The natural beauty of New Mexico has been immortalized by more than one painter over the years. The small details of a flower, the flowing lines and contrasting colors of a mesa, the contrast of a woman’s woven blanket against an adobe wall all conjure up the feeling of New Mexico and Santa Fe in
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Week #46 ~ Recap
783 miles, 2 states, 1 weekend catch up with dear friends, 2 national parks, 1 museum, 1 National Historic Site, $811 OVER budget. Santa Fe, Carlsbad, Marfa…..in a weird way you could say it was the triad of artistic experiences. Santa Fe is well known for the high desert clarity of light, rich browns and
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Week #45 ~ Recap
867 miles driving, 3 states, 3 National Parks, 2 hotel rooms, 2 campsites, 3 nights of freezing temperatures, 1 museum, $19.50 under budget. As our friend Susan says, “Geological time includes now”, and this week we got to experience the slow tick of geologic time by witnessing some of the most beautiful results of those
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Hoodoo the Voodoo that You do?
I’ve lived in Colorado since 1989. I’ve been to Canyonlands National Park, I’ve floated the Green River through Stillwater and Labyrinth Canyons more than once. I’ve been to Moab a number of times and would have been surprised if Utah canyon country had anything more to show me. My ignorance was corrected this week through
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The Grand Canyon
The grandeur and scale of the Grand Canyon is unmatched by anything we’ve seen, which made it a fitting end to our “Red Rock Canyon National Parks Tour”. Two nights camping with temps in the upper 30s at night and low 60 during the day made the quest to take in every stunning view we
