Tag: rv travel
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Kanab, Utah
Traveling across the country, we occasionally stay in a town not for any particular reason, other than to crash for a night or two. Such was the case with the town of Kanab, Utah, named after the Paiute word meaning “place of the willows”. In addition to being conveniently located near Bryce Canyon and Grand…
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Zion Canyon
First established in 1909 as Mukuntuweap National Monument, the Monument was renamed Zion in 1909 by the Acting Director of the newly established National Park Service due to concerns that the original Native American name would deter visitors who might have difficulty pronouncing its name. Zion National Monument became a National Park on November 19,…
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Oh, no…
I thought I would write a little about how we visually document the things we see as we travel. I will get to what happened in the feature image above shortly. In photography “the best camera you have is the one you have with you.” And for most of us, that is our iPhones or…
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Arches and Canyons
We arrived in Utah on the thirty-second day of our travels; a first visit to the state for us both. We had a five-night stay planned in Moab, because we wanted to visit both Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. A visit to Arches requires some advanced planning as from April 1 to October 31, the…
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Mesa Verde National Park
Established by Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, Mesa Verde National Park encompasses over 52,000 acres near the Four Corners region. Designated as an UNESCO World Heritage Site, it preserves more than 600 cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo people. The first people settled in Mesa Verde in AD 550. Their homes were “pit houses“, sunken rooms with…
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A Remarkable Aspen Grove
On the way from Moab to Springdale, Utah (Arches to Zion) we took a detour to visit one of the world’s oldest and most massive living organisms: The Pando Aspen Clone. Located in the Fremont River Ranger District of the Fishlake National Forest, the Pando is a single clonal organism consisting of an estimated 50,000…
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Chillin’ in Hatch, NM
In 2013, we were driving from Tucson, AZ to Santa Fe, NM when we saw a large red chile on a sign. As we recall, the chile was approximately 30 feet tall. We didn’t have time to stop and investigate on that trip but we resolved to return one day. That day arrived on Saturday,…
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Three Rivers Petroglyph Site
Seventeen miles north of Tularosa, New Mexico is a large petroglyph site managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Petroglyphs, or rock-art carvings, were made by prehistoric Native Americans. Three Rivers boasts a collection of more than 21,000 petroglyphs. Three Rivers is one of the largest petroglyph sites in the Southwest that provides visitors…
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Great Views, Sand and Pistachios
Oliver Lee Memorial State Park is a New Mexico state park located at the foot of the Sacramento Mountains. The park is 4,400 feet above sea level. The Sacramento Mountains, which border the park and show in the background of the photo below, reach an elevation of 6,700 feet. This shot was taken from the…
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OnTour again
After a 3-week delay we are finally leaving town for a 10-week tour though Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. This week will be filled with travel days as we try to reach Fredericksburg, TX and continue our pre-scheduled trip. Upon leaving we drove though heavy rain until we reached Maryland state line and experienced…