Category: Trip Report

Escaping the Corn Sweat: Albuquerque and Wichita

Post author By Wandering New Mexican
Post date November 29, 2025
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September 14 – 26, 2025 The end of this leg of our Summer 2025 Escape the Corn Sweat Tour was supposed to see us finish a week in Albuquerque before heading on home for a couple of weeks before our departure for our first international trip, but Brandy had other plans.

Escaping the Corn Sweat: Wire Pass Trail

Post author By Wandering New Mexican
Post date September 12, 2025
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September 11, 2025 During the Summer of 2021, I watched a video from some wandering YouTubers I follow, Adam and Kathryn where they hiked the Wire Pass to Buckskin Gulch slot canyon trail in Kanab, Utah. So inspired, that’s when I became determined to visit southern Utah.

Escaping the Corn Sweat: Bryce Canyon National Park and the Toadstool Hoodoos

Post author By Wandering New Mexican
Post date September 11, 2025
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September 10, 2025 In my effort to make my posts more bearable to read (as well as to write), I’m going to try a different approach on this post and see how it works out.

Escaping the Corn Sweat: Zion National Park

Post author By Wandering New Mexican
Post date September 9, 2025
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September 8, 2025 About an hour north of Fredonia is one of Utah’s five National Parks- Zion. Home to such iconic sights as Angel’s Landing, The Narrows and Weeping Rock, I’m honored to be able to that that I have been able to visit and enjoy one of the most popular National Parks in the […]

Escaping the Corn Sweat: Fruita to Fredonia

Post author By Wandering New Mexican
Post date September 8, 2025
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I never thought a two-day trip from one of our stops to another would warrant its own post, but with all we saw in what should have been a five and a half hour drive… yeah, this will be a hell of a post.

Escaping the Corn Sweat: Fruita, Colorado

Post author By Wandering New Mexican
Post date September 7, 2025
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August 24 – September 6, 2025 After a quick week in Walsenburg, we made our way northwest, almost into Utah, to the town of Fruita, Colorado, just west of Grand Junction, for the next two weeks on our Escaping the Corn Sweat Summer 2025 Tour. But before we got there, we made a stop in […]

Escaping the Corn Sweat: Moab and Arches National Park

Post author By Wandering New Mexican
Post date September 2, 2025
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September 1, 2025 Crossing off another National Park off my list is always an exciting time. Arches National Park held a lot of promise and boy, did it not disappoint!