What do you do when you refuse to travel more than a few hours a day but you need to get to New Mexico by the start of 2019 to start the next leg of your journey? You revisit southern Arizona along the way! We made three wonderful — and
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Stop 54: Monumental Adventures on Arizona-Utah Border
Our hunt for more crazy sandstone buttes and towers led us to the Utah-Arizona border — and directly into Monument Valley and to a little campground at Gouldings (on the Utah side of the border) — a compound that started as a trading post for the Navajo people and now
Stop 53: Southeast Utah and Foray Into Three Other States
As we make our way through the rest of Utah in a clockwise direction, we landed in the cute town of Blanding… the perfect stop to view two (or more if you have the time) national monuments and explore the Four Corners area (in which Utah’s border touches three other
Stop 8: Kingman, AZ, and Historic Route 66
Our final stop in Arizona took us to Kingman, in the northwestern part of the state, another town along Historic Route 66. We were expecting a small town — since so many towns along the old highway are small or practically ghost towns — but Kingman is a city, a
Stop 7: Lake Havasu, Wildlife Refuges, and Burros
What was going to be our last stop in Arizona ended up being our second to last, but what a fun and heart-warming adventure we had… especially after encountering the wild burros who lived just across the river from the state park where we camped. That river was the Colorado
Arizona Wines: A Rapidly Growing Industry
Before researching this trip, we knew nothing about Arizona wines; did not even know people could and were growing grapes. But grapes seem to especially like the parts of Arizona’s high desert weather conditions, referred to as the Diurnal Effect — the huge swing in temperatures between day and night. They
Stop 6: A Grand (Canyon) Adventure!
We spent two weeks based at Dead Horse Ranch State Park in beautiful Cottonwood, AZ, and visited so many amazing things that this post may be the longest we ever create. By the way, Old Town Cottonwood and Dead Horse Ranch are worth visits for the wines and hiking, respectively.
Stop 4: Government Shutdown & Sonoran Desert Hikes
Well, Stop 4 did not go exactly as planned with the three-day Federal government shutdown, but we did get to drive into a visit with a wonderful friend and took advantage of local conservationists to still get in our hikes and nature. We happily stayed in Paradise Valley, outside of
Stop 3: Southeastern Arizona Mountains, Rocks, Wines, and Pines
One of the most beautiful parks in the United States, and certainly in Arizona, is not even a park, but a national monument. The Chiricahua National Monument southeast of Willcox, at an elevation of 5,400 feet (rising to 7,310 on Sugarloaf Mountain) offers a collection of rock pinnacles (from the
Stop 2: Sonoran Desert, Picacho Peak, Saguaro National Park
Wow. Lots to say about our second stop, so please keep reading. The Sonoran Desert is simply amazing, covering all of southern Arizona (as well as parts of California, New Mexico, and Mexico) for a total of 100,000 square miles. It is the hottest of all North American deserts, yet