Truth be told, this isn’t really a travel-related post. Not unless fewer than seven or eight miles from home counts. But with COVID putting a damper on our travels recently, and since our site equally counts as an “adventure” blog, I’m going out on a limb to claim it as appropriate! It’s certainly an adventure to go look for the wild horses in Placitas, especially with…
Last week we took a short, impromptu camping trip up to Colorado to see the fall leaves. We drove the three and a half hours or so to Durango and then up through the San Juan Mountain range. We knew the leaves were likely past their peak already, but we decided to go anyway. Despite the lateness of the season, we saw some spectacular aspens and cottonwoods throughout our travels on the San Juan Skyway…
Colorado’s State Highway 12, also known as the Highway of Legends, is a road we had traveled once before, several years ago. This scenic byway runs through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains from La Veta to Trinidad, around the Spanish Peaks and through the San Isabel National Forest. We decided to take this road again, and wow, was it spectacular! The turquoise line was our route (vs. the dark line of the interstate to…
One might think that the tallest sand dunes on the continent would be in some exotic beach location that few people visit such as the Bering Strait of Alaska, or along the hurricane-ravaged southeastern coasts of the United States. I was surprised to learn that they are located hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean in, of all places, southern Colorado. President Herbert Hoover declared the Great Sand Dunes a National Monument in 1932…