19Mar 2018 by bolllj

Lake Cochiti Corp Campground, New Mexico – March 2018

We are just finishing our 14 day stay at Lake Cochiti COE campground in Cochiti, New Mexico. This park would be listed as one of our top ten parks we have stayed in during our first seven years of full-timing. We will definitely be back. During our stay we have hiked in Tent Rock, hiked the 5 mile long dam, hiked along the cliffs of the Rio Grande which runs through the park, and hiked many miles on trails in the park. In all we put on 61 miles in those two weeks. Loved all the hikes we were able to take. The park is between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, 30 miles north to Santa Fe and about 40 miles south to Albuquerque so when we needed supplies or getting…

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rock National Monument – Cochiti, New Mexico – March 2018

Traveling

I haven't posted in awhile but just had to write about Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rock National Monument which is relatively new, opening in January of 2001. This Park is about six miles from the campground we stayed at, Cochiti Lake Corp of Engineer CG for fourteen days. We did a little research on Tent Rock and picked a day that we felt the weather was perfect for a good hike. Very glad we did because even at 65 degrees it got hot as we climbed the trail. Tent Rock gets its name from the cone-shaped tent rock formations. [gallery columns="4" link="file" ids="5840,5826,5825,5824,5823,5822,5821,5820,5819,5818,5816,5815,5814,5813,5812,5811,5810,5809,5808,5807,5806,5805,5804,5803,5802,5801,5800,5799,5798,5797,5796,5795,5792,5793,5791,5790,5789,5788"] Tent Rock is a relatively small park with only three marked trails which we decided to do two of them. Our first hike was on Slot Canyon Trail, a…

Two Questions

On Our Minds

Joe and I are starting our 6th year of full-timing. It is so hard to believe! It seems like yesterday we sold our house and moved into our home on wheels. As we have travelled the country and tell people we meet that we are full-timers we get asked the same questions: how do you like it? how long have we been full-timing? how many states we have visited? what is our favorite state? how do we get our mail? are we afraid to stay in certain places? These are asked over and over again but while we were at one of the state parks in Georgia we were asked two questions from two different individuals that we have never been asked and both questions were surprising. One gave me…