My Itchy Travel Feet | The Baby Boomer's Guide To Travel

Driving New Mexico’s Enchanted Circle

October 29, 2009

Baby boomer roadtrippers, do you like to travel around in circles? A drive on New Mexico’s “Enchanted Circle” offers scenery, activities and unique stops as it circumnavigates Wheeler Peak (13,161 feet), New Mexico’s highest point.
Every circle needs a start. To begin the circuitous journey, take NM Highway 522 north from Taos for the day’s first [...]

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Saturday’s scene: I Was Here

September 19, 2009

I felt as if this ancient traveler had left me a message when I photographed his or her handprint on the sandstone wall at El Morro National Monument in New Mexcio.

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History’s Written in Stone at El Morro

September 1, 2009

Baby boomer travelers, here’s an off-the-beaten-path adventure that will intrigue you. El Morro National Monument is located in the northwestern corner of New Mexico on SR 53. For centuries, travelers and explorers have stopped to rest and replenish themselves at an oasis of water wedged into the base of this sandstone outcropping that overlooks the [...]

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