The Micro.blog challenge word for day 17 is “barrel”. Some barrels of wine at a vineyard run by monks in California, the New Clairvaux Vineyard. 📷 #mbnov #ThrowbackThursday
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November 2022
On the Sinclair Trails blog: we visited Sitting Bull Falls in New Mexico.
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 16 is “franchise”. A fairly common thing in national parks (e.g. Carlsbad Caverns) is to have two stores in visitor centers; one run by the park service, another franchised to a commercial operator, with more kitschy stuff. 📷 #mbnov
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On the Sinclair Trails blog: Guadalupe Mountains National Park. ⛰️
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 15 is “aluminium”. These elevator doors, 750 feet below ground at Carlsbad Caverns National Park, are probably made of aluminum. 📷 #mbnov
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On the Sinclair Trails blog: the first of two visits to Carlsbad Caverns National Park, with a ranger-guided tour. 🦇
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 14 is “leave”. When it’s time to leave a campsite, we retract the four slide-outs of our motorhome, which makes it quite a bit smaller (though we can still access everything). 🚌📷 #mbnov
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On the Sinclair Trails blog: our review of Carlsbad KOA Holiday. 🚌
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 13 is “adjust”. When we travel between timezones or Daylight Saving Time, pretty much the only clock we need to manually adjust is the convection microwave in our coach. 📷 #mbnov
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On the Sinclair Trails YouTube channel (like & subscribe!): a timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 125 miles from Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico to Carlsbad, New Mexico. 🚌 📹
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On the Sinclair Trails blog: travel day to Carlsbad, New Mexico. 🚌
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 12 is “suspicion”. We have a suspicion that Paladin is part Ragdoll, since he likes to be held in a boneless way. 🐈⬛📷 #mbnov #Caturday
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On the Sinclair Trails blog, an RV addition to help control the coach electronics: Firefly Vegatouch Mira. 🚌
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 11 is “display”. The Roswell UFO museum had several UFO incident reports on display. 👽🛸📷 #mbnov
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On the Sinclair Trails blog: we visited the International UFO Museum in Roswell, New Mexico. 👽🛸
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 10 is “minister”. From October 2021, an info sign in the mining ghost town of Golden, Oregon describes how the town had no saloons but two churches, the ministers of which were also miners. 📷 #mbnov #ThrowbackThursday
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On the Sinclair Trails blog: our review of Slow Play RV Park in Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico, a bit more snowy than we’d prefer. 🚌❄️
· camping · RV · snow
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 9 is “certain”. I’m not entirely certain I want to do the Natural Entrance to Carlsbad Caverns and the Big Room Trail in the same day, but we’ll probably do both when we re-visit on Saturday. 📷 #mbnov
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On the Sinclair Trails YouTube channel (like & subscribe!): a timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 122 miles from Las Cruces, New Mexico to Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico, including some wind and light snow! 🚌 📹
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On the Sinclair Trails blog: travel day to Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico. 🚌
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