Back to our beginnings

We're headed back to Big Bend and all points New Mexico. This time with camping gear. I took this photo of Big Bend in 2021 Read more

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Don't try this at home, kids.
August 29, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
How not to start a campfire.
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Day is done. God is nigh.
August 29, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Albuquerque-Mesita-Paguate-Grants-
Crownpoint- Seven Lakes-White Horse-Pueblo Pintado-Cuba-Clear Creek Campground.

515.8 km
320.5 miles
Travelerwhat an imense journey. What is your destination?
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2haraldsRedding, California!!
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We had a guest for breakfast
August 30, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
What a thrill. A hummingbird came by to see if he might like to join us for breakfast. I don't think he liked oatmeal.

Last night, a pack of coyotes serenaded us to sleep.
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Clear Creek Campground
August 30, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
The perfect campground. The National Parks and Forests are America at its best. Here are our camp hosts.
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Moto camping with a GS ...
August 31, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
... camping with the other guy.
Traveler😅.... was man halt so braucht😎
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Traveler … so ein Ausrüstungstrack kann ganz schön viel mitnehmen! 🤣😂
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Recipe for mud races
September 1, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
First, you prepare a dirt raceway.

Then you get the fire department to make the raceway really muddy.

Add on some new friends, music and beer, and you've got yourself a good time.

Glad we brought our camping chairs along.Read more
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Wagon Mound
September 1, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
The last natural landmark on the Sante Fe trail, the mountain top resembles the canvas covering of a covered wagon

http://sangres.com/newmexico/mora/wagonmound.htm
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Day is done. God is nigh.
September 1, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
Springer-Wagon Mound-Raton- Folsom-Capulin Volcano- Oklahoma-Clayton

396.9 km
246.6 miles
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Grilling chiles in Clayton, NM
September 2, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Traveler Sieht aber eher nach Maiskolben 🌽 aus.
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2haraldsThey're as big as corn on the cob, but they were indeed large peppers.
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Black Jack Ketchum
September 2, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
My great grandfather was a Methodist preacher and planted churches in the New Mexico territory before it became a state.

I was thrilled to visit Clayton, New Mexico, to hear stories I remembered from my grandmother.

One of the most memorable is that my grandfather, James Graham Harshaw, officiated at the last hanging in New Mexico. There hadn't been a hanging for a while and the rope wasn't calibrated properly. The result was that, instead of breaking his neck, Black Jack Ketchum lost his head.

My great grandfather is the second on the left who is wearing a long topcoat. The bearded man on the right is the sheriff, who didn't believe Ketchum was guilty and so wouldn't take part.Read more
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Day is done. God is nigh.
September 3, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Lake McKinsey Campground-
Ballinger-Eden-Llano-Marble Falls

768 km
477 miles
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Gerda Eklund
September 4, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
When my great grandmother was living in Clayton, New Mexico as a preacher's wife, she became fast friends with Gerda Eklund, whose husband owned the Eklund Hotel and saloon.

Gerda Eklund was known as a great beauty and my great grandmother, Myrta, was so inspired by her that she named my grandmother Gerda after her.Read more
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Taste testing
September 4, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 24 °C
Our daughter is getting married in Texas, and Haukur and I will be hosting the rehearsal dinner. We're hard at work, deciding who has the tastiest barbecue.
Travelerexemplary engaged
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2haralds❤️
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Views from the bike
September 5, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Stuck in traffic, I looked to the heavens.
TravelerEdgar Wallace-Die Vögel 🦅
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2haralds👻
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Family time
September 7, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌬 25 °C
Watching the big game with my brother and his wife in Fredericksburg, Texas. I don't think I've watched a football game for 40 years.

Don't mind the hand gesture. That just means "Hook 'em, horns" for the Texas Longhorns. They're playing against the Michigan Wolverines today.

It's "just" college football, but it brings in big, Big, BIG bucks for these university athletes. I mean into 7-digits.Read more
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On the Guadalupe River
September 8, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
... sharing a nice moment with my brother and sister-in-love.
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Day is done. God is nigh.
September 8, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 16 °C
Fredericksburg-Bankersmith-Comfort- Center Point-Guadalupe River-Kerrville- Camp Stewart-Ingram-Waltonia- Mountain Home-Harper-Fredericksburg

217.6 km
135.2 miles
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As seen in Weaverville, CA
September 11, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
TravelerCoool
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Traveler Neues Auto? 🤪
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2haralds😆
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Old glory
September 11, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
It wasn't until I saw all the stars and stripes on Main Street that I realized it was the anniversary of the attack on America when the Twin Towers and Building 7 were taken out by foes both foreign and domestic.Read more
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Boutique yummies
September 11, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
It's hard to leave once you get your foot into these confectionaries. Marshmallows dipped in caramel and sprinkles. Who knew?
TravelerDa heißt es stark bleiben 😅
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TravelerMmmh, ich will mehr!🤩🤤🤤🤤
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2haralds❤️
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Along the way
September 12, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
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At the wharf in Santa Cruz, California
September 17, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
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King of the bell tower
September 18, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
A seagull
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Living art
September 18, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Father-son duo build hundreds of pyramids on a Santa Cruz beach

Hundreds of sand pyramids are being constructed on Cowell Beach in Santa Cruz as part of an art exhibit by Jim Denevan, his son, Brighton and dozens of volunteers ...

The project, simply called "Pyramids," involves the creation of 380 sand pyramids of various sizes, some reaching over six feet tall. The exhibit is a collaborative effort with dozens of volunteers assisting in the construction."

https://www.ksbw.com/article/father-sun-duo-hun…Read more
Travelercool idea🤗
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"Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
September 18, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
"Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, “whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,” by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said “Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,” and he would have meant the same thing."Read more
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