Insatiably Curious, Incurably Restless
Welcome to the travel blog of Curious Craig. A lighted hearted look at the people and places that make America great.
The Pueblo de Cochiti refer to these geological formations as the Kasha Katuwe or White Cliffs. Now commonly called the “Tent Rocks”. The cone shape rocks are the result of volcanic eruptions some 6-7 million years ago, but who’s counting. These eruptions left pumices and ash deposits up to 1000 feet thick. Wind and erosion not only created these conical shapes but also the slot canyons below. […]
For 9 days every October, Albuquerque hosts the world’s largest celebration of balloon flight. Billed as the most photographed event in the world, hundreds of balloons fill the autumn skies.
Pueblos, American Indian settlements, are found throughout the southwestern US. They consist of multistoried adobe houses built by the Pueblo people. Today I visit the Taos Pueblo. 35 people live within the Pueblo full time and 1,000 plus in the town nearby. […]
Like many age-old questions: Is there life after death, how were the pyramids built, where does the universe end, and what’s really in a Chicken McNugget? These are conundrums that philosophers and great minds of science have wrestled with for ions. In such, it’s not likely I’ll answer the Roswell question in my self-imposed 1000 word limit blog entry. […]
I don’t follow Route 66 as much as I had hoped, in fact, there isn’t much left traveling from Oklahoma City to Amarillo. It is mostly I-40 with a few stretches of the original highway. There isn’t a whole lot going on this section of the iconic highway. In such, I don’t see many of the venues that the highway is known for. However, there are many things to explore during my brief visit to Amarillo. […]
During this visit, there is large hail, 50 mile per hour winds, and rotating thunderstorms. For many local news stations, this would warrant wall-to-wall coverage of radar shots and dire prognostications. Here it’s a mention during commercial breaks with “no interruption to our scheduled programming” It’s a place where afternoon drives are met with increasingly ominous skies. A place where commercials for storm shelters are as common as car commercials. A place where even a budget campground has an underground bunker. Is this the twilight zone. No, it’s in the middle of Tornado Alley. […]