Category Archives: Travel and Scenery

Travel – April 11-16, 2023 – Day 6 – Whites City – Roswell – Albuquerque

Posted on April 28, 2023 by Frank Hagar

All great adventures have a well-defined beginning and end. This was a great adventure but not the end of the trip and definitely not the last adventure of this trip. We spent the early morning watching Joy and Larry get … Continue reading →

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Guadalupe Mountain National Park – April 11-16, 2023 – Day 5 – Permian Reef, Hike, Beer

Posted on April 28, 2023 by Frank Hagar

Guadalupe Mountains National Park is in the bottom 15 least popular national parks. I think the fact that the true beauty and grandeur and yes … geologic oohs and ahhs of the park are only accessible by long hikes and … Continue reading →

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park – April 11-16, 2023 – Day 4 The BIG Room

Posted on April 28, 2023 by Frank Hagar

Day 2 in the park was devoted to exploration of the Big Room. The Big Room is the largest cave by volume in the US. It is a little over 8.2 acres in size with a 1.25-mile trail for exploration. … Continue reading →

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park – April 11-16, 2023 – Day 3 – Going Down, Down, Down

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Frank Hagar

An early meetup with Joy and Larry and drive up the 7-mile road to the park headquarters to begin our visit. Day 3 was a two-event day with a morning hike and exploration down into the caverns and later in … Continue reading →

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park – April 11-16, 2023 – Day 1 and 2 – The Journey

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Frank Hagar

There is a lot to talk about on this trip and there are a lot of pictures (although only about 1/3 of what we took). We left the OC on April 11 and arrived at Whites City, NM on the … Continue reading →

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Death Valley National Park – March 23, 2023 — Day 4

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Frank Hagar

This was our last day in the park with only two planned stops; a hike at Golden Canyon to Red Cathedral and stop and pictures from Father Crowley’s overlook. Another sunny Chamber of Commerce Day. Made a couple of short … Continue reading →

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Death Valley National Park – March 20-23, 2023 — Day 3

Posted on March 29, 2023 by Frank Hagar

Getting the 300+ photos for day 3 down to a more manageable size took way more work than I had thought it would. Ended up with 177 or so photos, all worthy to hang in the Louvre. Day 3 started … Continue reading →

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Death Valley National Park – March 20-23, 2023 — Day 2

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Frank Hagar

A little bit of geography here. Death Valley National Park is the largest national park in the continental United States encompassing over 3,422,000 acres of arid desert east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Within the park, the elevation change is … Continue reading →

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Death Valley National Park March 20 – 23, 2023 — Day 1

Posted on March 25, 2023 by Frank Hagar

Started out Spring 2023 with a four-day trip in the small, low clearance (as we found out) but powerful Ford CMAX to Death Valley NP (DV). We took a bit of a secondary route, leaving from Cathedral City and for … Continue reading →

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Glow in the Dark – The Living Desert – March 16, 2023

Posted on March 19, 2023 by Frank Hagar

Not a typical hike but still worth 4,400 steps. The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert is one of our favorite goto spots for relaxing and enjoyable strolling among the animals and desert fauna. This trip was a … Continue reading →

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