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One thing John Steinbeck* knew, traveling with a dog is an ice breaker. You meet and converse with more people when you have a dog with you. As I sat on the front porch of Stillwater’s general store a leather faced cowboy rode up on a Harley, got off and admired Sammy. After a briefContinue reading ““My Dog’s a Hog Dog””

The drive Monday 3/29 from Las Cruces to Stillwater RV park was through bleak west Texas scrub country, at first on I 10, then on an almost perfectly straight ribbon of asphalt called Texas state road 90. The park was full so we chose to stay at Stillwater RV park and general store. The office/storeContinue reading “This God awful Gene Autry Country*”

After Mesa Verde we decided to spend the night at a Cracker Barrel in Gallup NM. About 7 other RV’ers did the same. This was Sat 3/27. On Sunday we drove from Gallup to Las Cruces with a stop in Albuquerque’s Costco to replenish gas and propane. We ate lunch at a road food.com place,Continue reading “Gallup to Las Cruces”

Yesterday in Moab we met an Ausiecol*. At the dog park today, 3/27 we encountered an Ausielab, and a Cowboy Corgi. The latter was really cute. The owner explained the breeder purposefully back crossed a blue healer with a welsh Corgi in order to get a corgi with longer legs. “So their belly won’t getContinue reading “New Designer Dogs”

This was the least crowded of the parks so far. Maybe because it’s not fully open until May 15, or maybe because it’s at 8,700 feet elevation and the coldest park. The Campground was closed so no chance of scoring a space. Like the other parks there is one road in but one of theContinue reading “Mesa Verde”

We drove from Canyonlands to Moab to replenish groceries. Ate at a food truck (Quesadilla Mobilla), the number one rated “restaurant” in Moab on Trip Advisor. It was very good. Then we took Sammy to the dog park, he loved it, then on the road to Cortes and a Harvest Host site called Mancos Pizza.Continue reading “Moab, drive to Cortes, Mancos”

The drive from Arches to Canyonlands was only about 35 minutes. Canyonlands NP is divided into three sections by the two rivers that dominate it, the Colorado and the Green. Their confluence makes a Y that is in the center of the park. We drove into the center of the Y, called Island in theContinue reading “Canyonlands NP”

We finished seeing Arches in the morning, drove on to Canyonlands around 11 AM. The single best site at Arches was Landscape Arch…. A thin ribbon of sandstone, the trail no longer goes under it. In 1991 it did. Visitors were sitting under it when they heard cracks and loud snaps followed by falling rocks.Continue reading “Arches AM 3/24”

We got to Arches early, about 8:15 AM. There is basically one road, head into the park on it and at the end of the road turn around and head out. Three or four short side roads exist. One of these is to the campground. We had planned to ‘boondocks’ tonight on BLM ground butContinue reading “Arches NP”

This state park was other-worldly. Pictures are in order…. The first person of European heritage to see them called this Mushroom Valley, but the Native Americans had called it Valley of the Goblins in there language, so that’s what the place eventually came to be called. Apparently this area was once a sand dune coveredContinue reading “Valley of the Goblins State Park, and Black Rosy-Finch”