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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.

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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 country.

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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.

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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 nearby Rifle. Read on for more!

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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!

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Escaping the Corn Sweat: Walsenburg, Colorado

Post author By Wandering New Mexican
Post date August 25, 2025
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We didn’t really do much of anything in Walsenburg- we were there from Sunday to Sunday so we worked as per usual, but I took the day off Thursday for a trip north to Denver, and we spent our pre-departure day Saturday in a spiritual center in the state. Read on for more!

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