On Wednesday we said goodbye to Page and headed north to Zion National Park. This is the first time on this adventure that we are visiting somewhere we have been before. In 2020, we did a tour of Utah’s Mighty Five National Parks with some friends (Hi, Matt and Deven! We miss you on this […]
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Our last two and a half days have been full of fun and exploration around Page, AZ. Heather says this has been one of her favorite stops on our trip, but she says that about everywhere we go! We didn’t have any campground reservations in the area, so we were hoping for a first come,
Our day today was spent at Petrified Forest National Park. This is one of those stops that we had planned, had to cancel due to weather, and then were able to reschedule later, so it was much anticipated! Petrified Forest is about an hour away from where we are staying, so we knew that we
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Today we spent the afternoon in Winslow, AZ. We have actually been in the area for a couple of days, but the weather has kept us inside for much of it, so when the wind died down and the sun came out, we were happy to get out of the Bigfoot for a while. The
The last few days have been a bit of a roller coaster ride for us. There has been a good bit of fun, including visits to Jerome and Sedona, AZ, and some big disappointments. But let’s talk about the fun stuff first! As mentioned in our last post, we were staying in the Cottonwood, AZ
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Yesterday was a good day. It was Heather’s birthday, so we wanted to be close to a decent restaurant for dinner, which led us to Cottonwood, AZ. Before dinner, though, we wanted to find something fun to do, and since the weather was nice we wanted it to be something outdoors. Tuzigoot National Monument was
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We spent a couple of days in the Lake Pleasant area just north of Phoenix. We had one day of nice weather to explore the park area, so we will share a few of the photos we captured along the way. Until next time!
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The Sonoran Desert is known as “the Green Desert” and if you look at the photo above, I think you will agree with us that the name is appropriate! On one of our hikes while here, we both repeatedly commented that we didn’t realize a desert could be so diverse and, yes, so green! Learning
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Wow! Most everyone knows what a Saguaro Cactus is. It is such an iconic image of the southwest! We have all seen images of one lone saguaro with the sun behind it, and so we picture the desert with very sparsely spaced cacti and virtually nothing else around. That is not at all what the
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Other than visiting parks, it is not often that we do typical “tourist” activities. Rarely do we spend money on museums, shows, tours, and other experiences that are commonly associated with travel. However, being just 30 minutes from Tombstone, AZ, and having heard about the gunfight at the O.K. Corral our entire lives, we couldn’t
We had never heard of Chiricahua National Monument until we started doing research for this trip. We read a couple of articles about good places to visit in the winter and it was mentioned in one of them. Without thinking much about it, we put it on our ideas map and moved on, not really
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We mentioned in our Alamogordo post that life isn’t always fun and games, even when you are traveling full-time. Sometimes there are chores to do, work to get done, and then sometimes, you just need some down time! That has been the last couple of days for us. After staying at Dog Canyon Dispersed Camping
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A few years ago after a visit to Great Sand Dunes National Park, we were telling our friend, Ken, about it and he said that if we liked dunes, we should definitely check out White Sands National Monument. This was before White Sands became a national park in 2019. We filed that away in the
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When we left Chosa Campground in the ice and cold, we moved to Brantley Lake State Park. In the two nights we stayed there, we pretty much just hunkered down to avoid the cold, so there isn’t much to say about that. We will admit, though, that it was nice to have a couple of
After our adventures in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, we moved just 30 minutes up the road to Chosa Campground, which is a free campground on BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land. BLM land is a great option for travelers because camping on it is often free or very inexpensive. With this type of camping, all
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