 The Elusive Mexican Spotted Owl According to Audubon Magazine, the Mexican Spotted Owl is the rarest one in the United States. Highly localized within its wide range,(travels from Mexico north thru Arizona, New Mexico to Utah, and Colorado) this creature seeks out cool, shady canyons, often in areas surrounded by the hot, dry slopes of […]
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Event to Put on Your Bucket List! One of the things on my bucket list was to ride in a hot air balloon. Even though, I haven’t quite done that, I am getting closer. Last weekend,(Oct. 25), a girlfriend and I ventured over to Taos, New Mexico for the 32nd Annual Taos Mountain Balloon Rally.Â
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Last August, northwestern New Mexico’s Chaco Culture National Historic Park (NHP) became the fourth unit of the U.S. National Park System to received the designation of International Dark Sky Park Association. Added to the National Park System in 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt and designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987, Chaco Culture NHP
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Every month the City of Rocks State Park offers a public night showing for the passing tourist or local from Silver City. Viewing starts around sunset, so be sure to bring a light jacket, flashlight and chair. Therefore, if you enjoy looking up at the night sky to find the Big Dipper or Little Dipper,
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Summer is almost here and New Mexico has so much to offer for the RV enthusiast and outdoors person. The Rocky Mountains spans almost the entire west side of thes state. If you love hiking, trail riding, kayaking, hot mineral springs, birding, hot air ballooning, breathtaking landscapes, art, music and dance as well as the
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The Infamous CatWalk Five miles northeast from the small town of Glenwood, New Mexico is a road that leads to the mouth of Whitewater Canyon to the infamous “Catwalk.†Named appropriately because of a pipeline built in the 1890’s to deliver water to the mining town of Graham. The pipe up Whitewater Creek was only
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Hello and Welcome! I invite you to join me as I journey through the four states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. The American southwest is very sacred and special to me. I seem drawn to this part of the country and have derived so much pleasure in exploring the wilderness and serenity that
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