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Last Updated: May 4, 2026

We don’t always take the direct route home from Yellowstone, and this trip was proof of it. After one of our latest-season stays in Gardiner — businesses closing, temperatures dropping well below freezing each night, and several surprise snowfalls reminding us that late autumn in Montana is not the time to linger — we mapped a route south through Wyoming and into Colorado to visit as much of Michael’s family as we could reach. Jake was a good sport through the cold weather and ready to move again. From Colorado we continued east across the plains to Amarillo before cutting west through Albuquerque, stopping in the Arizona high country, and finishing the winter migration at Yuma for the drive home to San Diego.

Bighorn sheep grazing near the road at Yellowstone, Montana in late autumn — late-season wildlife viewing with few other visitors around

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Last Updated: July 12, 2026

After a week of repairs at Newmar’s service center in Nappanee, Indiana, we pointed the motorhome west toward Amarillo, Texas — a roughly 1,200-mile drive across the heartland of the country. We were chasing better weather and trying to stay ahead of the active spring storm system moving through the plains. The driving days were long, but the goal was clear: get to drier, calmer air in the Texas Panhandle. We had family in Amarillo we had hoped to visit, but the worsening COVID-19 situation made that impossible. With anywhere from 20 to 80 percent of those infected showing no symptoms or only mild ones, we had no way of knowing whether we carried the virus, and we were not willing to take the risk. We will try again on a future pass through.

Dramatic red and orange mesa formations rising from the canyon floor under a vivid blue sky at Palo Duro Canyon State Park near Amarillo, Texas

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From Yellowstone to Arizona: A Winter Family Road Trip Through Wyoming, Colorado & Texas

Amarillo, Texas: Cadillac Ranch and Palo Duro Canyon During COVID