Spring Break Road Trip ’09: Day 3

BAAAAA!

Though not well rested, we were determined to make up for the last two unproductive days with exciting activities. We began the morning (after the tedious process of loading everything back into the truck) at the New Mexico Heritage Farm and Museum. A large building complex and dairy farm with activities for adults and children. We breezed through the adult exhibits showing the history of agriculture in New Mexico while our daughter shouted out the animals and their sounds. We then proceeded to the Adventure Corral where our daughter continued to shout out the animals and their sounds. After that, we went to the barn where our daughter, yes, shouted out the animals and their sounds. All this farm fun culminated at the Discovery Garden where she played in the sand and let me pull her around in a wagon, very farm-like of us. She napped on our way over the Needle Mountains to White Sands National Monument. Read more »

Spring Break Road Trip ’09: Day 2

Leaving Albuqurque, we were still somewhat optimistic that we may find a camper, but the road ahead lay wide and deserted, reflecting a sense that there was nothing to be found. Through the sandy red deserts and rock canyons along  I25, we came to terms with our lot as hotel tenants and decided to make the best of it.  Yet, Las Cruces seemed to have more dismal plans as the big box stores looked down upon us in mockery. We decided to do what we should have done three years ago, buy a New Mexico guide book.

Mountains over Las Cruces

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Spring Break Road Trip ’09: Day 1

I have traveled all over the world under intense and difficult situations, such as sleeping on a centipede infested mattress on a dirt floor in India or vacating a bus due to a bomb threat in Israel or paying a quarter for a Chinese bathroom (you’d have to smell it to believe it). Yet traveling with children requires a whole new set of skills and rules that I wasn’t quite prepared for. We’ve traveled with my daughter several times now including our five week road trip to New Orleans last spring. But not yet a mobile toddler, I was able to sit her in the corner with toys and take care of dinner. Now that she is walking, and does not care to be held for long, a new breed of vigilance is required. Read more »