Hell’s Half Acre

We’re probably the only family that would do this, but today we drove 250 miles (roundtrip) to go to Target. Yes, the ONLY reason for the drive was to get Sissy somthing that only Target could give her. She loves Polly Pocket dolls and we found no stores in the Chama area that [...]

Jesse found my camera! Cleaning out a bag of clothing handed down from Friday, he came across the camera! I was so excited that I immediately ran around trying to re-take photos I’d already taken with the analog camera. Now that I will be able to post pictures, you might begin to [...]

We woke this morning, surrounded by cows. Ellen LOVES cows and they were right at the trailer; sauntering around it, the pond and the meadow.
It is simply glorious here. Hard to breathe at times, but there’s always a tradeoff. We’re camped in a very high meadow close to a mountain pond. [...]

So, when we started this journey, it was with the idea that we would take a 2-3 month “vacation” in Baja and then drive around certain states (Idaho, Oregon, Colorado) and decide where we wanted to move to. The best laid plans… We thought it would virtually impossible to find an area that [...]

I am absolutely DYING for a camera. Everywhere I look there are spectacular sights and I want to capture them all! We left the campground just at 10am and as I began the climb out of the gorge we passed her; headed down to collect $5 for the day fee. This camp [...]

We have been having such a marvelous time visiting with friends that I simply don’t have a brain to post. The kids have enjoyed the company of Nirinjin’s family so much that we made numerous playdates so they could play. Peter, Tara’s husband was amazingly clairvoyant and
burned us many new CD’s of [...]

It is becoming impossible to write a post while boondocking as the computer never has battery power to allow me to do so. When we run the generator at night (my usual writing time) I’m either reading to the girls or the computer battery has been exhausted. Yesterday, while doing errands in town [...]

We were very surprised to find that in order to get to the State Park we’d picked in Santa Fe, we’d have to go through town. Yes, THROUGH town, all 17 meters of us. I remembered Santa Fe as being very small townish but thought that perhaps I’d missed the big part of [...]

It is quite overcast this morning. We camped in the Valle of Fires last night; lava fields in the midst of a wide valley between the, well, looking at the map, I can’t tell which mountain ranges. There are quite a few ranges coming in at Carizozo. At any rate, the mountains [...]

We use free Wifi hotspots to get online, post and get email. So far, in the US, this has worked well. We managed to pick two campgrounds with free Wifi. In Mexico, we’d simply walk into town and pick from numerous Internet Cafes, but that doesn’t seem to exist in the US. [...]