It has been a while since I laid eyes on the ranch in late Spring, when the grass is greener and temperatures more modest. Visiting with dear Boden cousins (mostly from Canada), we were fortunate to attend a calf branding (younger members were at first squimish, but as advised […]
The Fort Union Ranch has been in the same family’s hands for a century and a half. The Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail – whose ruts can be easily seen from State Rt 161 – crosses the ranch. At the ranch’s center can be found the Fort Union […]
El Malpais: the badlands of central-west New Mexico offer sharp lava rocks covering a 40-mile valley sided by smooth sandstone bluffs, just east of the Continental Divide. The McCartys Crater poured lava 2,000 to 3,000 years ago, making the valley all but uninhabitable. Sandwiched between Navajo and Acoma reservations, the badlands […]
