Our love for subterranean spaces is something we discovered only within the last year. It began with our spelunking trip in Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave where we learned there are better ways to experience the underworld than along paved paths. There’s just something unnatural about the aluminum handrails and colored ceiling lights that are the hallmark of developed cave tours. Far better, in our view, to turn on a headlamp and squeeze into pitch black sections few other people get to see.
The fear of driving a motor home prevents many people from even attempting a life on the road. Motor homes are big, and tall, and long and sluggish. Stepping into the driver’s seat for the first time can be a terrifying experience. Believe me, I know. It doesn’t have to be.
Of all the reasons people give us for not RVing, fear of driving one is the easiest to overcome. If you know how to drive an automobile then you already have all the skills needed to drive a modern motor home. Making the transition only requires a few adjustments, most of which you can practice in the car you drive now.
Easily mistaken for snow, these brilliantly white rolling drifts are actually the world’s largest gypsum dunefield.
The 275 square mile New Mexico desert, known as White Sands National Monument, is a remarkable place both for its beauty and its improbability. Gypsum dissolves in water and normally is washed out to sea before it can grow into such large dunes. In White Sands, however, gypsum washed down from the San Andres and Sacramento Mountains remains trapped in the Tularosa Basin, where it accumulates into a snow white desert.
Santa Fe, New Mexico may not literally be for sale, but it sure seems as if everything else in town is. The downtown Plaza, listed as a National Historic Landmark, struck us as a giant adobe shopping mall. Street front stores sell everything from tourist memorabilia to art. Nearby passageways open to larger interior malls with even more retail options. Outside, street merchants pedal crafts and Native American jewelry. Santa Fe is a shopper’s paradise. Fortunately for us, though, there is plenty more to see and do in New Mexico’s state capitol.
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