March 20, 2021 Brandy and I took a drive up to Tijeras this morning for a quick hike along the Cedro Creek Nature Trail.
March 12-14 There are 63 national parks in the United States and its territories and it took meeting Brandy to visit my first one (which was Mesa Verde National Park in southwestern Colorado last year.) This weekend, we visited my second, Carlsbad Caverns in Southeastern New Mexico.
January 10, 2021 I met up with Alan at the Information Center of Petroglyph National Monument on the west side of Albuquerque at around 1:00. We went in to the visitor’s center and I picked up a couple of trinkets for my souvenir wall before carpooling out to the trailhead. The Boca Negra Canyon trailhead […]
December 5, 2020 The Copper Trailhead sits in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains and spawns four separate trails through the desert landscape.
November 7-8, 2020 It seems it’s been a while since we’ve gotten out of town. My last post was in early September. We did make a short trip up to Gunnison, CO, in early October but I didn’t take any pictures and it was a rather uneventful trip, so I didn’t bother making a post […]
August 29, 2020 Brandy and I woke up early on Saturday in anticipation of visiting the farmer’s markets in downtown Albuquerque and in Los Ranchos on Rio Grande Blvd. We got to the market downtown and it was PACKED. Way too many people for our taste, so we bypassed it and went straight to the […]
February 15, 2020 Belen, New Mexico, was settled in 1740 and incorporated as a city in 1918. Its proximity to the geographic center of New Mexico earned the city the nickname “Hub City” and Belen became a centralized transportation hub including access to rail, interstate highways and air travel. As a main stop on the […]
January 25, 2020 My plan for this week’s outing was to stop by my parents’ house to drop off some boxes, then head down Corrales Blvd to Alameda, then Rio Grande Blvd down to downtown-ish then head up the El Camino Real senic byway (4th Street) into Bernalillo, swinging by the Coronado Historic Site before […]
January 18, 2020 I’ve been to Old Town Albuquerque a million times before Saturday, but I always find something that fascinates me each time I go.
January 18, 2020 Part of this self discovery journey I’m embarking on is getting used to solitude. Not necessarily being totally alone at any given time (although that is taking some getting used to,) but I’m talking more about doing things by myself.