$30 motel (with tax), Van Horn, Texas.

Heavy metal, Seminole Canyon, Texas.

Ancient graffiti, Seminole Canyon, Texas.

Amphitheater at entrance to Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico. The site of a visit by the blogger's parents on their honeymoon in the summer of 1940.

Crescent moon, New Mexico.

White steed at White Sands.

Route 181, rural Texas.