Surely it couldn’t get any colder

Laramie, Wyoming We are on our way to Utah to have a few warranty issues fixed on our trailer. We must be quite high as it’s snowing. The nighttime forecast was for -5C, so we got our sleeping bags out as they are rated to -4C. The wind howled around us all night – it’s […]

Garden of the Gods

Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado 480 acres of land was given to the City by the children of Mr Perkins who had wanted his land to be a free park for the people. There are many unusual rock formations that you can either walk around or rock climb if you obtain a permit. […]

Taos, New Mexico

We booked the Taos Valley RV park which Tom Tom found extremely hard to find. We gave up and looked it up on Google Maps. The RV park is very nice and the staff are helpful in giving you suggestions of what to see in the area. The first afternoon we just spent walking around […]

Bandelier, New Mexico

An hour and a half north west of Santa Fe is the Bandelier National Monument. There are walking trails that take you to the Ancestral Pueblo villages dating back to the 13th Century. Most of the dwellings are now in ruin but you still see the outline of many of them and see that the […]

Albuqueque, New Mexico

We are on a time limit as we need to have some warranty work on our trailer before the 12 months is up, so have booked it in at Draper, UT for the 1st May. We have devised a quick trip into New Mexico just to see what it’s like – mainly Santa Fe and […]

Santa Fe, New Mexico

The oldest house in America A leisurely one hour drive brought us to the lovely city of Santa Fe. There are a lot of adobe style buildings and trees and gardens! They had a light sprinkling of snow a few days before we got here and it has rained every night, but the days are […]

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

The Petrified Forest is in Arizona just off the i40 on a side road leading off from Holbrook. The first fossil/petrified rock shop/gallery is huge and has some amazing fossils on show as well as lots of polished petrified wood made into whatever their imagination could come up with. The wind from the previous day […]

It’s time to take the plunge

Our new Beginning There’s a new NAB ad on TV where a little boy is asking his grandfather what the people in the exhibition are doing – he says, “they are in retirement”. What does that mean? he asks again. “It means they can do whatever they want to do” While we have been doing […]