Holiday season touring has become consistently more popular as Americans have tended to travel more, while breaking some longstanding end-of-year family traditions. Time was that everyone headed over to Grandma's house for a Christmas feast, but now even Grandma and...
Barely 20 years ago, downtown Los Angeles was almost a city center that attracted the interest of few Angelinos, to say nothing of visitors to Southern California. I remember friends from the area commenting that L.A. "doesn't have much of a real downtown." Yes,...
After an extended cruise of Australia and Indonesia, I returned to the Phoenix "Valley of the Sun" area in mid-March, just in time to catch the final two weeks of the annual spring training season. I was able to see 15 games, visit every Cactus League park and see 13...
Last month I discussed several sights that made my winter in Southern New Mexico a most memorable one. However, I also spent a few days during late December in the state's largest city, as I particularly wanted to see the holiday decorations and Christmas Eve...
Just east of Albuquerque, the Turquoise Trail National Scenic Byway and one of New Mexico's numerous fascinating "back roads," which takes the traveler through two historic mining communities. Madrid served as a major coal mining boomtown in the 19th century. The...
It is highly unlikely that most readers have ever heard of Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, one of New Mexico's most fascinating but little known monuments. You won't find it shown in the Rand McNally Road Atlas at all, and you'll have to search diligently...
Winter is the prime time of the year for visiting Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge's migrating birds. Built in 1939 along the Rio Grande, the refuge is celebrating its 75th anniversary. Bosque del Apache's 57,331 acres include a scenic, 12-mile loop...
I've spent the last couple of months as an interpretive volunteer at magnificent White Sands National Monument, 13 miles south of Alamogordo in Southern New Mexico. This monument showcases the largest field of dazzling white gypsum sand dunes in the world. It not...
With the discovery of silver in the area after the Civil War, Silver City began life as a typical Western mining "boom town." Silver City avoided the "ghost town" fate of many similar New Mexico communities after the silver market crashed in 1893 by reorienting...
One of the nation's more remote park sites, Gila Cliff Dwellings was named a National Monument by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907. From Silver City, four-hour round-trip via a scenic and winding mountainous highway. Motorcoach tour groups should plan for a...
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