…This is where all that ash came from – about a million years ago an eruption hundreds of times bigger than Mt St Helens dumped a couple of cubic miles […]

… and when it gets a bit chilly to climb the nearby Bandelier National Monument offers the chance to explore ancient ancestral Pueblo dwellings carved from much the same stuff […]

Los Alamos is of course famed as the site of the Manhattan Project to develop the first Atom Bomb. The Los Alamos National Laboratory now dominates the Mesa top with […]

Texas is BIG and of course everything in it is supersized. Just nipping across the panhandle is a couple of hundred miles and there’s very little to break the endless […]