Monthly Archives: May 2015

Saturday: Capulin After our experience with the storm Friday, I persuaded Bruce to head out quite early to Capulin so that I could get some good pictures from the crater rim before the clouds rolled in. We grabbed a quick breakfast at McDonald’s and head out, arriving at the visitor’s...Read more

Friday: The Dry Cimarron! We set out bright and early to follow another New Mexico Geological Society road log, which would take us across the northern part of the Raton-Clayton volcanic field and into the valley of the Dry Cimarron. The Raton-Clayton volcanic field is the easternmost volcanic field of...Read more

Thursday: More Ghost Towns and Dikes Thursday we loaded up and headed out to Raton. Because I would be returning to Los Alamos and Bruce would be returning to the Denver area, we would be making this trip in separate cars, then meeting up in Raton to use his (more...Read more

Wednesday: Dikes and Ghost Towns South of Santa Fe has always been kind of a blank spot on my mental map. However, I discovered that there is a fair amount of interesting geology and history in this area, and we had a New Mexico Geological Society road log of the...Read more

It’s another long story, but the basics of it are that Mom took my sisters on a cruise, then decided she ought to do something for her sons as well, and sent me and Cindy (and my brother and his wife) some money for the express purpose of going somewhere...Read more