Category: Expeditions
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Expedition #1
March 11-12, 2022 In mid-March we embarked on our first expedition, driving back to Las Vegas, NM on a Friday afternoon and staying overnight at the Plaza Hotel, situated on a historic central plaza typical of many of New Mexico’s small towns, pueblos, and even the larger cities like Santa Fe and Albuquerque. The next…
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Maps and Planning
Pete attempts to get an “aerial view” of our table with all the atlases and online maps, apps, trail hiking books, and one or two bottles of wine during a route-planning session for one of our early expeditions.
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A Crazy Idea
During a Thanksgiving Weekend in 2021 four friends – Peter & Lindsay, and Pete & Patricia – took Amtrak’s “Southwest Chief” from downtown Albuquerque NM to Las Vegas NM for an overnight at the historic Casteñeda Hotel. The Casteñeda was one of the original “Fred Harvey Hotels” established in the early 1900s to provide fine…