Heather, and the Purple Backpack Travel Blog
Best Random New Mexico Road Trip Stops
After driving over 1000 miles and spending just under 4 weeks in New Mexico, we’ve settled on our favorite road trips stops. Interestingly, most of our favorites were in southern New Mexico, and could [...]
Lessons Learned Month One on the Road
Technically, it has not been a whole month yet, but, with May starting it seemed close enough. We have certainly had our share of kinks and things to work out these first few weeks. [...]
Hanging with Alpacas (and Trying Out Harvest Hosts)
After spending 4 nights in a mechanic's parking lot we were ready for fun and adventure again. We made a brief stop at an RV park for some hot showers and laundry and then [...]
Week One Reflections
You know that awkward feeling when you just don’t know what to do with your hands? Well week one pretty much felt like that - but with everything. Where do I put this? How [...]
Meow Wolf: A Great Way to Stay Warm in Santa Fe
As you may have heard by now from our other blog posts, it is apparently cold in New Mexico this time of year. We made it two whole nights of camping in high 30 [...]
Bus Conversion: How we fit a living room, dining room, office, guest bed and storage in 20 square feet.
Designing a bus is a lot of work, and one of the hardest parts is deciding which things actually get to the fit in the bus, which parts of the build get precious inches [...]