Excellent Adventures

Day 11 may be found here. I sleep late, and conclude that I am not going to drive to Monticello today as originally planned. Extending my vacation by a day shouldn’t be much of a problem. and it seems prudent. I do need some exercise, and I toy with the...Read more

Day 10 may be found here. I don’t usually carry a cell phone, because of the possibility of accidentally taking it into my office (in a secured building) and having an unpleasant character-building experience as a result. So Cindy had to inform me that it’s possible to set your phone...Read more

Day 8 may be found here. Getting very close!Read more

Day 6 may be found here. Yesterday I visited the northeast part of the park, which I did not get to last time. Today my plan is to visit the south part of the park, for the same reason.Read more

Day 5 may be found here. Less than a week to go. And the picture here is good enough to encourage me to think that I may get a good shot of the eclipse itself.Read more

Monday, August 14: I prepare to depart on a trip I’ve been planning now for years. The Moon is going to cross between the Sun and the Earth, as it does roughly twice a year, but this time the narrow path of totality (where the Moon appears to cover the...Read more

Day 1 may be found here. After getting up at a decent hour, and confirming that little in the hotel’s continental breakfast selection was safe for a diabetic, Bruce and I headed out for a cup of alkaloids (in Bruce’s case) and some complex carbohydrates with fat and protein (in...Read more

A more or less annual tradition is an excellent adventure with friend of the Wanderlust, Bruce Rabe. However, what with the shoulder surgery, I had pretty much written it off this year. But the shoulder got to be feeling much better, and Bruce mentioned that there was going to be...Read more

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