The dying November sun glistens off the tight plastic packaging around our Earl Campbell’s Hot Links. My companions Heinrich and Jack are busy re-staking the tents in the midst of a growling ...

Guadalupe Peak and El Capitan ... an arid plain sprinkled with rows of smaller hills. The road to El Paso and the border with Mexico is a gray scratch across the landscape. It’s gorgeous.

Much of the El Paso ... of El Paso County and Hudspeth County in Texas and the Las Cruces region, Gila National Forest, Lincoln National Forest and the Sacramento Mountains in New Mexico.

Southwest Texas is the location of some pretty amazing parks, and I had the opportunity to visit two of them: Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico and Guadalupe Mountains National Park in ...