"Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so that you can be who you were meant to be in the first place."
- Unknown
Hola from New Mexico! We are going to start a few new things that you can expect regularly. At the end of each month we are going to “recap from the road” some of the highlights from that particular month, “month by the numbers” the first week of the new month showing the finances of the previous month, and also a live video feed every Sunday on our instagram. You can find us @thejourneywithn there and also on Facebook!
So the highlights for this month –
Our first BLM land we stayed on was in a beautiful area that was such a relief from the city and Wal Mart life we were use to. Now, any city we visit, we check to see if there is any land near by we can sleep on instead of the busy interstate driven roads by Wal Mart. We spent a few more days at the ashram in Alachua Florida where I was yoga teacher trained with people that are now like family to us before heading back to Mississippi. On travel days we usually travel three or four hours on the road tops. Only being able to go 60-65 mph wind permitting is exhausting and not worth the energy spent on being unhappy driving to us. Being back in Mississippi was overwhelming. We had to divide our time between seeing family and friends, all on top of tying up loose ends with my moms death. However, we are grateful for that time knowing we won’t see those family and friends for another eight months. This month is all about change. It would seem the lifestyle of living on the road would be all about change, and it is is, but we have a routine now. We will share this soon! After Mississippi, we headed to Austin, Texas. This is one of our favorite cities that we have spent a lot of time in prior to hitting the road full time. We stayed with a friend, Lee Smith, and met a bunch of cool new people we really connected with. We are enjoying making friends along the way. Austin always treats us to a lot of fun, usually too much, and then we leave in the whirlwind we came in. Finally the end of this month was finished at our first National Park, Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Carlsbad Cavern is one of over 300 limestone caves in a fossil reef laid down by an inland sea 250 to 280 million years ago. Twelve to fourteen thousand years ago, American Indians lived in the Guadalupe Mountains; some of their cooking ring sites and pictographs have been found within the present day boundaries of the park. By the 1500s, Spanish explorers were passing through present-day west Texas and southeastern New Mexico. Spain claimed the southwest until 1821 when Mexico revolted against her and claimed independence. Mexico, fighting the westward expansionist United States in the late 1840s, lost the southwest to the US. In 1850, New Mexico Territory was created, and for the next 30 years the cultural conflict between American Indians and the US government continued. Eddy, New Mexico, the future Carlsbad, was established in 1888 and New Mexico became a state in 1912 (NPS sit info). In layman’s terms, it is SO COOL! 750 feet underneath ground in 56 degree cool air surrounded by limestone drapery. The total hike inside the cave is about a mile and half. The pictures don’t do it justice. You must go if you are ever near Roswell. We were not expecting Carlsbad Caverns’ to be as cool as it was. This was also our first NPS we have found that offer kennel service for dogs, because leaving dogs unattended is prohibited. Of course we can’t say we took the park service up on this offer, we however think its cool that the service is available for all you pup friendly people out there who don’t have a temperature controlled RV. Now we are sitting in a Wal Mart in Roswell New Mexico. We checked out a state park in the area but were unimpressed and not willing to drive the thirty minutes it took to get back out there once in town. It is hard to believe the month of March has already come and gone but we are excited to see what the month of April has to bring! We will be updating the blog with the finances within the next week! Here are some pictures from this month! Enjoy! – a
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