A few extra days in Tucson, Arizona gave us the opportunity to explore both sides of Saguaro National Park and Sabino Canyon.
The Gila Cliff Dwellings are some of the best preserved cliff structures in the U.S., and one of the few you can actually enter.
High winds brought us to Alamogordo and the White Sands National Park a few days earlier than expected. But a fire near our campground nearly chased us away.
A national park two-fer! We visit Guadalupe Mountains and Carlsbad Caverns on the Texas-New Mexico border.
We paid a man $10 to row us across the Rio Grande into Mexico, then did a lot of hiking in Big Bend National Park.
Driving across Texas, we visit the JFK museum in Dallas, The Alamo in San Antonio and a box canyon near Del Rio.
We go diamond-hunting at Crater of Diamond State Park near Murfreesboro, Arkansas. Check out our find!
We take a dip at Hot Springs National Park, do some hiking and eat some good German food.
In Vicksburg, Mississippi, we visit a civil war battlefield, a Coca-Cola bottling museum and the Poverty Point World Heritage SIte.
In Memphis, the National Civil Rights Museum, in the hotel where Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot, is one of the best museums we’ve ever been to.