The 35km drive out to Big Red surprised us as 27km was on bitumen and the remaining kms on beautiful gravel. The single track at the base of Big Red was a few centimetres of soft sand atop a hard base. Smooth driving. Parked in the day trippers designated area and went seeking our friends, Kerry and Dave. We were blown away with the sight of the setup, never having seen so many caravans and camper Read on...
Today was the day I headed out of town to investigate the Visitor Center. Michael Reynolds, with a degree in architecture, built his first house out of can bricks in Taos in 1972. After years trying other building materials and systems, he went on to build the first Earthship in 1988.
The homes are built with recycled tires that are filled with dirt and sand and stacked like a brick wall. Bottle Read on...
Woke up this Sunday morning to another sunny day with fresh mountain air and we went back to Porters Restaurant for breakfast for the second time. We both had the Fruit Parfait and OJ and I had a coffee as well and did not realise our vouchers only allowed one beverage but the water said it was all OK. Id overlooked to mention yesterday that I was able to watch the AFL Grand Final whilst we were s Read on...
Our final day of hiking up was here. Today, we would reach Everest Base Camp! Today was the first day I took a full diamox pill in the morning due to the increased elevation. It was going to be a long day, so I was trying to mentally prepare myself, but this was the first day that I was not feeling 100 percent. We were to hike about 3 hours to Gorak Shep, have lunch, say good bye to porters, conti Read on...
I had a nice drive up the Rio Pueblo Canyon in the Carson N Forest SE of Taos, New Mexico. I passed the Comalas pay Campground. In the 1980s I had a wonderful dispersed camp (on a very rough dirt trail) there by the Rio Pueblo, before the pay Campground was made. Now this is a great camp location, with few other campers, and a low National Forest camping fee. There are other nice forest service ca Read on...
After our last amazing breakfast in Madrid we were on the bus by 8:30am and headed to the city of Toledo in Mancha, an hour south of Madrid, passing large old homes and almond and olive groves. As we approached the first vista of Toledo, our bus had to jockey into position among the numerous other tourist buses so we might get out and get our first glimpse of ancient Toledo across from the Tajo R Read on...