Excellent Adventures

Morning in the wilds outside Deming, New Mexico. We breakfast, pack, and drive to Rock Hound State Park. We paid the overnight camping fee last night, though there turned out not to be a camp site; we might as well get part of our money’s worth by hiking there today....Read more

We wake to a calm morning. Breakfast, then back up the road a couple of miles to Lake Valley. The ghost town is now a reasonably well-curated mining museum, with signage. The town was more prosperous than most mining towns. There was actually quite a lot of silver in them...Read more

We awake from a pretty good night’s sleep, and find it a relatively warm morning. Gary is enjoying his hammock. It does seem like just the thing, at least in good weather. It may not be so great in the rain, where it would be a bit large to fit...Read more

We awake to a distinctly chilly morning. Fortunately, all our subsequent camp sites would be at lower elevation and further south, and we would be warmer. The beautiful fall weather continues to hold. Morning in Quemado. We’re looking south across the eastern outskirts of town. (It’s not a big town.)...Read more

I’ve fallen into the habit of taking one or two trips every year where I make a point of seeing some new geology. Often these are combined with visits to family, for weddings or graduations or just because. And one of the first was with my friend Bruce Rabe, and...Read more

Gary is scheduled to meet me at 8:30 and I arise in time for a good breakfast. Mom is already going through her morning routine. Gary arrives and we repack the Wandermobile. I get a final shot of Mom. We drop off Gary’s rental car, and then we’re on the...Read more

My nephew is getting married. He’s the first of my father’s grandsons to take the plunge, and I am not going to miss the occasion. He’s chosen April 20 for his wedding date, which is somewhat earlier in the year than I usually take my excellent summer geology adventure, but...Read more

Day 8 may be found here. I’m up at the crack of dawn. It’s a pretty nice campground, except for being a little buggy. The asphalt was a bit hard. The restrooms have actual plumbing. I suspect there are camper hookups, though I don’t generally pay attention to that. Haven’t...Read more

It’s time for the annual vacation, which this year is also the biennial Budge family reunion with my mother, siblings, and offspring, in Logan, Utah; and also my annual geology trek with Bruce Rabe, retired paleontologist. gentleman, and scholar, in western Colorado. I had packed the previous evening, Sunday, July...Read more