by Deonne Kahler | Oct 8, 2014 | Home in Taos
I’m sitting in a campground near the Grand Canyon and it’s gray and off-and-on rainy, but I’m here for a few days and the beauty of that is I can ride out the weather. So today I’m posting to the blog, eating leftover pizza, taking a long,...
by Deonne Kahler | Oct 1, 2014 | Travel
I’ve said before that one of my favorite things about my quest to see all the National Parks is visiting the ones I’d never heard of, and being delighted with my discoveries, over and over. The sleepy town of Farmington, NM has both a “whiplash...
by Deonne Kahler | Sep 11, 2014 | Travel
It’s fun to say it like that, isn’t it? A rallying cry, or something a pirate would yell. Yarr! Bandelier! Alas, I didn’t see any pirates – or even any colorful shoulder parrots – at Bandelier National Monument, NM, though I did see...
by Deonne Kahler | Aug 29, 2014 | Travel
Moutainair, NM is where the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument visitor center is, and it also happens to be home to the Shaffer Hotel, where I was told they serve tasty meals. I’m always up for a tasty meal, so before my drive to Salinas I stopped in. I...
by Deonne Kahler | Aug 25, 2014 | Travel
It was a Scamping first. I had just woken up and gotten Sam into the Pilot in the Walmart parking lot in Las Vegas, NM, ready to head to Pecos National Historical Park, when a friendly looking woman hopped out of her RV, approached me, and said my name. I gave her a...