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White Sands National Monument and Oliver Lee State Park

We left Santa Fe in a morning snow storm and headed south toward White Sands. We found that Azul and Wobbles had great traction on the snowy roads as we didn’t slip once. White Sands is quite a bit lower in elevation than Santa Fe so we didn’t have to drive long for the snow to turn from sleet to rain to nothing at all. By the time we reached Oliver Lee State Park outside White Sands it was in the 70’s and t-shirt weather! What a swing in temperature! We were on the same path as the sweet family we met so we decided to travel together for a bit.

Alamogordo NM: New Mexico Museum of Space History and Pistachios

Alamogordo NM is the closest city to White Sands National Monument, so we made a few stops on our way out including to the excellent space museum there as well as to one of the pistachio farm stores.

Back to Santa Fe, NM

Justin and I had been talking privately without the girls about keeping Kara verses bringing her back to the shelter where we originally found her. The shelter was big about if the pet wasn’t a good fit within the first 30 days you could bring it back for a full refund. I think they probably make this rule so that new owners don’t keep a pet out of money guilt when they know it’s a bad fit.

Albuquerque

We were amazed with how awesome the Albuquerque science museum was! It was so great, in fact, we spent 2 days there since one just wasn’t enough. So much to explore and learn!

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, NM

This was an incredible monument with such a great slot canyon hike! What they are referring to as “tent” rocks are hoodoos made from igneous rock and through erosion have become visible to us. Many of these tent rocks had giant boulders balancing on top of them which is a pretty incredible sight!

Valles Caldera, NM

We ended up going to Valles Caldera since it was so close and we wanted to see the source of the volcanic eruption that had created and helped form all those amazing caveats we saw at Bandelier National Monument.

Bandelier National Monument

Since Los Alamos and Bandelier are so close to one another we arrived at the campground in good time even after making some stops along the way. We even had enough time to take a hike!

Los Alamos

Onward we went to Los Alamos. I had mixed feelings about visiting this place. It was such a big part of history and there were many brilliant scientists who lived here, but history that was made here also killed hundreds of thousands. Devastating.

Big decisions in Santa Fe

You know how you hear of people say they woke up after being in Vegas to the realization that they have made some shocking choices? Well, I’m not much of a Vegas girl but we did just make a fairly spur of the moment choice that was definitely crazy. Were we drugged?? I’m not ruling it out. No, we didn’t sell our home to be full time on the road. We got a kitten!

Meow Wolf, Santa Fe

What on earth is Meow Wolf? And what kind of name is that anyway? Well, I’ll tell you the name sounds fitting after you have been to this strange world!

Wacky Wanderers

exploring on the road as a family

Author: Sarah

White Sands National Monument and Oliver Lee State Park

Alamogordo NM: New Mexico Museum of Space History and Pistachios

Back to Santa Fe, NM

Albuquerque

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, NM

Valles Caldera, NM

Bandelier National Monument

Los Alamos

Big decisions in Santa Fe

Meow Wolf, Santa Fe

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