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Taos & The Enchanted Circle, NM
Less than 24 hours after returning to Albuquerque from Maui, we had all clean laundry and a restocked fridge and were heading north to get a first come-first served campsite at the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument for the week. This National Monument has several small campgrounds inside the river gorge and also up on the rim. There is absolutely zero cell service at any of them, so our stay was only possible with Starlink! We snagged a water/electric site at Rio Bravo inside the gorge to be close to the town of Taos. Though the beauty of Taos doesn’t really come through in my photos, we loved it.…
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A Little Bit Of Albuquerque, NM
We were parked at High Desert RV Park in Albuquerque for a month starting the second week of April. We needed to be near an airport and plan to spend the summer in the Rockies, so Albuquerque suited our needs perfectly. Albuquerque is a big city but somehow doesn’t feel too crowded. The Sandia Mountains are just east, Spanish for watermelon because of the color they turn at sunset. The Rio Grande runs through the middle, with miles of multi-use trails that we didn’t get to take advantage of this time around. We did make sure to visit historic Old Town which is a lot like Santa Fe, except that…
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Carlsbad Caverns NP & Guadalupe Mountains NP
Our next planned stop for the first week of April was going to be boondocking in southeast New Mexico, right between Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountains National Parks. But, a couple of days beforehand we saw that temperatures were going to be ~10 degrees higher than we expected. Being in the desert in the high 80s didn’t sound fun so we scrambled to find an alternative spot. We ended up at Brantley Lake State Park. I hope we aren’t getting weak at boondocking. Brantley Lake was our first New Mexico State Park and we loved it. We had water and electric hookups for $14/day and the desert was blooming. It…
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Enchanted By Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe is the place we’ve been most excited to visit in the “Land of Enchantment” state. I was probably primed to love Santa Fe by my Grandma. It was one of her favorite places and she even decided to become Catholic while visiting one of the churches as a young adult. Now that we’ve visited several of them, I wish I could ask her more about it. We spent the second week of October boondocking in the Santa Fe National Forest, a mere 15 minutes from downtown. This free spot seemed almost too good to be true. Santa Fe is such a beautiful, historic, and multicultural city. Its Pueblo…
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White Sands National Park
There are only so many destinations you can reasonably drive to in one day from Big Bend NP. White Sands NP, in south-central New Mexico, looked doable (under 400 miles) and was certainly worth a visit. While visiting, we boondocked just 4 miles away from the park on property that Holloman Air Force Base allows. It was not a bad place to spend the work week! The sky was absolutely amazing every night. Unfortunately, you can’t have any contact with the lake since it’s toxic; and sadly, there were a lot of ducks there that can’t read the posted signs. White Sands NP protects the largest gypsum dunefield in the…
