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oliver lee state park.
week two.

Posted on April 25, 2017April 25, 2017by sarah

our second week at oliver lee state park (alamogordo) was pretty low-key. we kicked it off with easter sunday. the kids had already had an egg hunt and eaten all of their candy, so all they had left by way of gifts and celebrations was a basket with a couple of toys. it’s pretty hard […]

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dog canyon trail.

Posted on April 16, 2017by sarah

today (i’m almost all caught up!!!), i abandoned my family, and headed up the very same mountain that we have been staring at out our camper door all week. here i am, all ready to go. the entire hike is 5.1 miles out and up. and then 5.1 miles back and down. i wasn’t sure […]

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three rivers petroglyhs (mostly).

Posted on April 16, 2017by sarah

yesterday (saturday), we took a family excursion to three rivers petroglyph site, about an hour north of our campsite. so, naturally, on the way, we stopped for a ginormous breakfast. and then we were off for adventures. three rivers petroglyphs is on BLM (bureau of land management) land. it contains over 21,000 petroglyphs (carved rock […]

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oliver lee state park.
week one.

Posted on April 16, 2017by sarah

we are halfway through our two week stay at oliver lee state park in alamogordo, new mexico. it’s one of the better locations we have found ourselves at, in terms of the view. it’s a state park, so we don’t have sewer hookups, which mean bath houses and trips to the dump station and extreme […]

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cloud climbing rail trail.

Posted on April 16, 2017April 16, 2017by sarah

somehow. last week. i convinced the two bigger lidkids to go on a three mile hike in lincoln national forest. i did a little research and found a loop that went down into a canyon a bit, then up to an old railroad trestle and then back down further, before back up to the top. […]

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white sands national monument.
part two.

Posted on April 14, 2017by sarah

on monday, after working on their junior ranger workbooks, the big kids and i went back over to white sands, so they could finish them up and get their badges. while they wandered around and identified plants and their uses to early inhabitants of the area, i snapped a pic of the visitor center sign, […]

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new mexico museum of space history.

Posted on April 9, 2017May 3, 2017by sarah

today (sunday) we hit up the new mexico museum of space history. we had free admission, so we decided to spring for a trip to the planetarium. the museum was mostly a little over my kids heads, but still pretty cool. outside, there were rockets and planes and various space travel artifacts. this giant rocket […]

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white sands national monument.
part one.

Posted on April 9, 2017by sarah

saturday morning, before we were even to our campsite, we decided to head to white sands national monument. basically, its a giant area of sand dunes, made from fine white gypsum sand. we picked up some sleds at walmart and we were good to go. white sand. blue sky. hazel wasn’t a huge fan of […]

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carlsbad-ish camping miscellany.

Posted on April 8, 2017by sarah

this is the post about our two weeks in carlsbad, when we weren’t exploring nearby national parks. but, before that, our trip from big bend to where we were staying near carlsbad was over 5 hours, so we broke it up with a layover at the fort stockton, texas walmart. decidedly less cool than big […]

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carlsbad caverns national park.

Posted on April 3, 2017by sarah

after our last adventure in big bend, we made our way north to new mexico, where we are staying just north of carlsbad. a stomach bug made its way through our family, so we had a very low key week, but this weekend, fully recovered, we were ready for some adventures. on saturday, we hit […]

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