#30 Virtual Road trip Day 11

For my final adventure #30 We’re taking a virtual trip through Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.  We’ll be taking virtual tours of different national parks and monuments as well as other attractions, watching baseball games on tv and trying to recreate some of our favorite restaurants and foods. Make sure to follow along for my daily post with pictures, links and videos.

Day 11

We started our day off in Albuquerque and then stopped in Santa Fe for lunch.  Every year we would stop for breakfast or lunch in Santa Fe. 

One year we stopped at Blue corn Café and Brewery and had green chile stew.  We’ve been making it at home ever since and decided to make it for our last meal of the trip.

After this we made the long trip home. 

 

And with that our trip has come to the end of the road.  We saw and learned a lot of new things and even though we never actually left home we were still able to have a great trip!  Thanks for reading and following along.  I hope you enjoyed the journey as much as I did.

#30 Virtual Road trip Day 10

For my final adventure #30 We’re taking a virtual trip through Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.  We’ll be taking virtual tours of different national parks and monuments as well as other attractions, watching baseball games on tv and trying to recreate some of our favorite restaurants and foods. Make sure to follow along for my daily post with pictures, links and videos.

 

Day 10

 

We started off our day in Las Cruces with a breakfast burrito (technically from Las Caras in Denver).  Then we took another Virtual Scenic Drive: Taking a Cruise Up NM Highway 185.

https://www.lascrucescvb.org/scenic-drive-heading-north-on-new-mexico-highway-185/

This showed the Mesilla Valley and headed to the Hatch Valley and the “Chile Capital of the World” Hatch, NM.

Further north we stopped to check out Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge near Socorro, NM.

The Friends of Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge website has a bunch of photos and videos about birds, their Desert Arboretum and their Festival of the Cranes.  I spent awhile looking at these and enjoyed them very much.

 

https://friendsofbosquedelapache.org/gallery/

After this fun day we stopped in Albuquerque.

#30 Virtual Road trip Day 9

 For my final adventure #30 We’re taking a virtual trip through Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.  We’ll be taking virtual tours of different national parks and monuments as well as other attractions, watching baseball games on tv and trying to recreate some of our favorite restaurants and foods. Make sure to follow along for my daily post with pictures, links and videos.

Day 9

We started off in Tucson and took off east.  Then we made a stop in Lordsburg, NM for lunch.  

A couple of times in the past we stopped at a restaurant named Kranberry’s that had a mining theme.  This might have been the only place in town.  They mostly had breakfast and lunch items.  I had a grilled cheese with ham sandwich.

Next, we took off again toward Las Cruces.  Once there, we watched a Virtual Scenic Drive: Heading Down NM Highway 28 toward El Paso.  I enjoyed seeing the pecan orchards and driving through the little towns.

https://www.lascrucescvb.org/virtual-scenic-drive-heading-down-nm-highway-28/

 

After this we took a Virtual Scenic Drive: Baylor Canyon Road.  This showed the Organ Mountains and the Mesilla Valley.

https://www.lascrucescvb.org/virtual-scenic-drive-baylor-canyon-road/

#30 Virtual Road Trip Day 2

 For my final adventure #30 We’re taking a virtual trip through Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.  We’ll be taking virtual tours of different national parks and monuments as well as other attractions, watching baseball games on tv and trying to recreate some of our favorite restaurants and foods. Make sure to follow along for my daily post with pictures, links and videos.

Day 2

We started the day off with lunch at subway.  We have in the past stopped at the subway in Grants, NM a few times. 

I had the American club sandwich.  Our first stop after lunch was El Malpais National Monument about 20 miles from Grants, NM.  We have stopped at their visitor center in the past but never made it to the actual monument. 

 We checked out their photo galleries.

Photo Gallery

https://www.nps.gov/elma/learn/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm

I watched a few videos; 

El Malpais National Monument - Part 1 | New Mexico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S84-WWF5tVc

 

The BEST Activities at El Malpais National Monument | Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmclZ3etfVQ

 

Hiking El Malpais National Conservation Area

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue5W5H5xFCw

I didn’t really like the video in the cave.  I did like the hiking videos and all the scenery. 

  

Next we stopped at El Morro National Monument which is 14 miles away.

We watched a video and checked out their Photo Gallery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WF3t3GnTUM

 

Photo Gallery

https://www.nps.gov/elmo/learn/photosmultimedia/photogallery.htm

And watched an interesting  video about Juan de Archeluta

https://www.nps.gov/elmo/learn/photosmultimedia/multimedia.htm

Then we stopped at Petrified Forest National Park.  We used to stop here for a rest stop and once changed a tire in their parking lot.  

I really enjoyed looking at the photo galleries. 

We also watched the video they show at the visitor’s center.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zTbY4Tl2CQ

Then we made it to Flagstaff for dinner.  We had Italian night because I figured there has to be a good Italian restaurant in Flagstaff. 

We made grilled chicken and gnocchi with Daves Gourmet Creamy Parmesan Romano Pasta Sauce and with garlic bread.  Then we called it a day