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    Baja 2017

    We just went to Baja a couple of weeks ago. My friend invited me to the SCORE San Felipe 250 and a side trip to the Santa Maria de Los Angeles Mission. We talked about it and decided to expand it a little bit more going down the Pacific side, entering Mexico through Tecate, down to Ensenada and...
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    Rio Grande 2016

    The Rio Grande, or Rio Bravo del Norte as its known in Mexico; rises in the western part of the Rio Grande National Forest in the U.S. state of Colorado. The river is formed at Stony Pass, by the joining of several streams at the base of Canby Mountain in the San Juan Mountains, just east of the...
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    Colorado 2016

    We finally were able to realize our dream jeep trip to the San Juan Mountains and the Rio Grande headwaters. The plan was to run some of the trails in the San Juans for the first three days and then run to Stony Pass, find the Rio Grande headwaters , collect water from it and follow the Rio...
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    Travesia Mimbres to Mogollon, NM

    Last weekend we finally got to go out again and do what we love. This time we went with some good friends we met down in Chihuahua last spring and some we met for the first time, but having the same love for the outdoors it felt like we had known them for a long time and had a great time...
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    Chihuahua 2016- A trip down to Old Mexico

    Last week we went to a trip down to Old Mexico, I was invited to an off-road event, the state's annual 4x4 reunion; this year the event was held on the city of Delicias, in south central Chihuahua. We left a day earlier so we could visit and spend some time with my wife's relatives who live...
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    Potrillo Mountains

    Here's a slide show/video of a past small weekend off-road adventure, on the Desert Rat trail in the Potrillo Mountains in New Mexico. https://youtu.be/Apm7tSqzT-E
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    Red River, Enchantment Circle New Mexico

    Here's a report of our small adventure jeep trip we did last weekend to Red River and the Enchantment Circle area in northern New Mexico. It was to celebrate my 50th birthday. What better way to spend your 50th birthday than doing what you love...with you family and..... jeeping! We made a...
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    Coleman Taos build

    I don't know if this is the right place to post this, if not please let me know or move it to the right one. I had been thinking about building an adventure trailer or a small pop-up to modify for off-road for sometime, to ease my wife's fears of sleeping on a ground tent on the remote places we...
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    San Lorenzo Canyon/Cibola NF, New Mexico

    Here's another New Mexico weekend adventure report. This time we went to San Lorenzo Canyon, just north of Socorro NM; what was supposed to be a 3-day trip had to be cut short to a 2-day weekend trip due to work, but we managed to make it worthwhile and visited most of the places we had planned...
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    Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico

    This past weekend we went for a little adventure to the Sacramento Mountains in southern New Mexico. We went trough the back roads crossing Fort Bliss' live fire range. You can drive through that road, as long as you stay on it, then you take the road that follows the Sacramento river bed until...
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    Geronimo's Trail, New Mexico

    Here's a small report of our trip last week to the home lands of the famous chiricahua apache Goyakla, otherwise known as Geronimo. We started our trip at El Paso, Texas, and after our friends from Juarez, Mexico joined us, we were soon on our way to Monticello, NM. We got on the trail in the...
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