Travelogues New Mexico

Traveling by train across great distances in the USA feels like a time travel. It’s the exact opposite of the meticulously timed and super punctual train journeys in China and the...

Hello everyone =) Warm greetings from beautiful Phoenix. Slowly but surely, I am getting back into civilization and I finally have time to tell you about our exciting road trip...

Sooo, once again I retrospectively report about the experiences of the road trip, now that I am back in civilization with internet access. I hope that from now on I can report...

First things first: Bernie was at the airport and everything was as predicted. That's not all: He and his wife Joyce live in an adobe house, a modern version of what has been...

So, new day, new luck ... This time we woke up early, had a quick breakfast (although the hotel's offerings invited us to linger/strengthen), packed everything up, and drove...

Just to start off ... we show you beautiful pictures over and over again, and everything looks so "clean". But we can be different too, when the camera is off ... just like in...

High Desert There are words that simply do not exist in the German language. We know the sand and the rock desert, the desert mountains, and a little bit more, but a high desert...

Drive along the coast, over mountains, and through desert landscapes where you can see many quad bikes zooming over dunes. It has been a long time since I saw the sunset behind...

Tuesday October 17th, 2023, day 17 Our second week in the motorhome started yesterday and we are still happy and satisfied with our tour and our experiences. We started from...

Today, hiking in the Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument was originally planned on our itinerary. Located on our way from Albuquerque to Santa Fe, it protects a desert...

After our short detour to El Paso and the associated short visit to the state of Texas (some say we only went there to scratch off this state on our world map at home - naughty,...

The day started off innocently enough. The plan was to drive through an Apache reservation south towards Arizona, and that's where the first surprise came. The local First...

The older ones among us, those for whom an electric model railway was still high-tech toy in great demand, may still remember the Märklin catalog; unmistakably and always quite...

Experience the sunrise at White Sands National Monument - that was our plan. So we got up very early to overcome the 40-minute drive from Las Cruces. We skipped breakfast...

Alamogordo itself was not so exciting for us. However, before our trip, we received a tip from an acquaintance about the nearby desert. Only about 20 minutes' drive from our motel...

A stupid advertising call from Germany jolts me awake. I really should put my phone on silent, but so far I haven't received any such calls here. I try to go back to sleep, but...

Today is the halfway point of our stay in America. We have seen and experienced so much already.

My second breakfast in a row is neither worse nor better than yesterday's. Eating breakfast alone is not really my thing, so I'm grateful if there's something, but I don't...

In Roswell, not only Americans live, but also many extraterrestrial beings. They are everywhere, observing humans. There is an extraterrestrial employee in the Visitor Center,...

Watch out, because we are being watched. Aliens are among us. This is what it's all about in the town of Roswell. Graffiti on the walls, souvenir shops, even the street lamps have...

The park has 83 individual caves, including the deepest known limestone cave in the USA at a depth of 487 meters below the surface. The cave is well developed and we were able...

I wake up a little earlier in the morning and have time to plan the next few days. I'm always about two days ahead. Of course, I've roughly thought about where I want to go, but...

I wake up early because some idiot starts his car but doesn't drive off, instead letting the engine run for 15 minutes. Unfortunately, I experience this nuisance here quite...

Even without the barking of dogs, I still wake up too early. But that's not because of the motel - the room is great. It's more because my internal clock is still not completely...

The White Sands National Park is located about 25 km southwest of Alamogordo and at the northern end of the Chihuahuan Desert. The children were able to slide down the dunes...

As I check out of my beautiful motel, I compliment Katherine at the reception for the great room. She is very happy. And she tells me that she has been to Germany a few times....

That was not a good night. There was a dog in the room next door barking all night. Although I used earplugs, I felt sorry for the poor dog. I also knocked on the door but no...

New Mexico

Arrived at Carlssbad Cavern at 6 p.m. Just in time to see the thousands of bats flying into the caves every evening under the observation of many tourists.