August 18, 2023
Utah has the imprint of many native cultures on its rocks. The Parowan Gap Petroglyphs are a compact and busy space for these ancient communications. Whatever these people intended to communicate I cannot help but fixate on just how much more peaceful now would be if it took patience, time Read more…
February 23, 2023
Petrified Forest National Park would offer me so much beauty on my short trip. Though I had made this assumption before arriving, I was not prepared to see the range of gorgeousness. I want to return to get out of the car more comfortably, because on this particular visit the Read more…
August 20, 2020
Now officially on my trek south to Flagstaff, Arizona, I hit a series of relatively easily accessible scenic stops along the way, starting with the Sand Island Petroglyph Panel. The Anasazi, ancestors to the Pueblo, carved up this panel good and well, possibly since occupied as early as 6,500 BC. Read more…
August 19, 2020
Who’s got the gossip? This rock does! The Newspaper Rock, a notepad nearly 2,000 years in the making and 200 feet tall along a cliff in the Indian Creek Canyon, tells countless stories. As one of the busiest slabs of ancient communication, the Newspaper Rock State Historical Monument is officially Read more…
August 17, 2020
Those of you who have followed my adventures may remember my becoming semi-obsessed with petroglyphs on my trip to New Mexico a couple of years back. With this area’s ancient history vivid on the surrounding walls, I would rekindle this love and seize the opportunity to find and document these Read more…
August 13, 2020
Look at a topographical map of the United States and find the big mass of crinkled brown. That will be my home for the next 14 days. The extreme landforms of this part of the country are otherworldly, beautifully impractical. Lack of easy access to water and its canyons, cliffs, Read more…
February 22, 2018
Arts & Crafts, Beautiful Places Far Away, Eating Out, Nature, Photography, Urban Exploration, Wanderlust
It was a short walk from my hotel to breakfast at Cafe Pascal’s, right on Santa Fe Plaza–the heart of downtown. This is a popular place so centrally located, dressed to the nines in New Mexican flair, and with awesome service. I had to doorbust so as to not be Read more…
February 21, 2018
Today I heading back north from Roswell, New Mexico towards Albuquerque, I came upon these two cowboys having a squabble across Highway 285. Now, if I pulled over for everything that piqued my interest on the road, I would never get anywhere! Colors, textures, abandoned and decaying buildings, old neon Read more…
February 17, 2018
New Mexico has preserved remnants of countless ancient peoples. From the prehistoric Clovis Man to the Anasazi, ancestral Puebloans, the number of historical sites in the area is mind-blowing. One of the Anasazi, the Chaco Culture, inhabited Chaco Canyon in current day New Mexico during the 9th and 13th century. Read more…