New Mexico Travel
Here are some highlights of my travels to New Mexico:
Road Trips (PDFs)
Fort Worth a.k.a. Museums Road Trip 2024
I headed to Fort Worth, Texas to visit family. Although I didn't do any sightseeing in Fort Worth itself, I visited a number of sites on the drive out there and the drive back home, with special emphasis on museums. One of these museums was arguably the most unique museum I have come across so far in my travels.
To Iowa and Back Road Trip 2023
I headed out to Iowa and back to visit family, making a number of sightseeing stops along the way.
Tucson/Las Cruces Road Trip 2023
I headed for Tucson, Arizona to visit some museums in town and some sites in the region. I then headed for Las Cruces, New Mexico to visit sites there that I had originally planned to see in 2019 when car trouble cut short that trip.
Cross Country Relatives Road Trip 2022
I headed out to the Midwest to visit family. Along the way, I checked out a wide variety of sites, from dinosaur bulges to Frank Lloyd Wright, Pullman cars to French colonial settlements, Buffalo Bill to Laura Ingalls Wilder, the Garden of Eden to Popeye.
Northwest New Mexico Road Trip 2022
For my 350th overnight trip since I graduated college, I headed for northwest New Mexico, in particular focusing on sites near Grants and Zuni Pueblo, Aztec and Espanola. Destinations on Native American pueblos, the Manhattan Project sites at Los Alamos, and colorful Ghost Ranch were among this trip's highlights.
Eastern United States Road Trip 2022
After the COVID pandemic kept my road trips mostly in the desert Southwest for the past two years, I set off on a 3 1/2 week road trip across the Southeast and then up the East Coast before heading west back to Las Vegas. Among my destinations were several newer National Park System units that I hadn't been to before, a number of Native American moundbuilder archaeological sites, American history sites from the settlement of Jamestown to the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era and a number of other sites.
Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico Road Trip 2022
After driving out to the Dallas area for a family event, I took a sightseeing trip on my way back home, with stops in downtown Dallas, along Route 66, and in the dinosaur country of northwest Oklahoma and northeast New Mexico, with a number of other stops thrown in, too.
Deep in the Heart of Texas Road Trip 2021
On my way back home from a visit to see my brother and his family in Texas, I visited a number of sites in the Texas Hill Country and west Texas. I also made repeat visits to a few sites as I crossed New Mexico.
Cross Country Relatives Road Trip 2019
On a cross-country road trip to see family, I checked out a mix of places that featured geology sites, archaeology sites, dinosaur sites, Republicans, nuclear missile sites, corny sites and the Jolly Green Giant.
Cross Country Relatives Road Trip 2018
In October 2018 I took a road trip from Las Vegas to the Midwest to visit relatives, making a handful of deliberate and ad hoc sightseeing stops along the way. On the way back home I spent a few days in the Moab/Green River area of Utah to visit Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. Unfortunately, rain, local flooding and snow limited some of my sightseeing.
Four Corners Rock Art, Ruins and Hiking 2018
In April 2018 I took a 17-day road trip around the Four Corners region to see a number of ruins, petroglyph, pictograph and geological sites - most of which I hadn't been to before even though I've been in the region a number of times. This included 34 hikes on the first 16 days of the trip. It was a great trip - and it was pretty obvious that when hiking through Four Corners canyon country it pays to keep your eyes open.
Southern Arizona and Southwest New Mexico 2018
For my first road trip of 2018 I headed for destinations in southern Arizona. Although I got some sightseeing and hikes in, the weather didn't cooperate, with rain everyday until the day I headed home. Good thing Arizona is close.
Cross Country Relatives Road Trip 2017
In October 2017 I drove from Las Vegas to Illinois and Iowa to visit some relatives, padding the drive with some sightseeing days in New Mexico, Texas, Illinois, Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah.
New Mexico and Southwest Texas 2017
In September 2017 I took a 2-week road trip around New Mexico and southwest Texas as I headed to Fort Worth, Texas to visit family.
New Mexico Ruins and Rock Art 2017
In July 2017 I spent two weeks exploring northwest New Mexico and northeast Arizona; during this trip I visited or saw about three dozen Ancestral Puebloan ruins sites, many associated with Chaco or Mesa Verde cultures; I also took in a number of geological sites and some museums, and I took about two dozen shorter to mid-length hikes.
Destination Overviews (PDFs)
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Secrets of the Four Corners/Colorado Plateau Region
During my explorations of the Four Corners/Colorado Plateau region, I've sought out interesting places that were off the beaten path. I've been pretty successful, visiting a number of great places that I usually had all to myself. Take a virtual road trip to a dozen of my favorite "secret" places - and check out some not-so-secret suggestions that you'll also come across along the way.
Slide Shows (YouTube)
