11 key stops on a 17 mile scenic drive between Arizona and Utah with no RVs allowed. This is, unfortunately, the situation at the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. That said, there are guided tours we could have booked…
Arizona
There are so many great stops north of the Grand Canyon – Lee’s Ferry, Vermillion Cliffs, and Horseshoe Bend (click here for more info), but the first time we travelled through this area a bucket-list item was closed due…
From Phoenix we headed north. We whizzed past Flagstaff and up Hwy 89 where we turned left near Cameron on Hwy 64 for some scenic views of the canyons along the Little Colorado River. Our destination? None other than…
We were really excited to roll into Phoenix. We hadn’t seen our best friends, the Grabowskis, or Hayden, Tressa and granddaughter, Claire, since January of 2022. Claire would have been 15mo at that point and now she would be nearly 2.5years…
From Winslow, AZ to Pine is a pretty drive and quick stop at Tonto Natural Bridge was on the day’s agenda.…
At first I was afraid, I was petrified…but then I really enjoyed the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. If you don’t enjoy a lot of hiking, this park should be near the top of your list as you…
Given our good friends and only granddaughter live in northern Phoenix (just north of Scottsdale), anytime we have the opportunity to pass through the area, we do! We typically stay with them on weekends but like to stay close…
Although we were in the RV part of 2020, we spent the holidays in our San Ramon home that year. I was apprehensive about the holiday season full-time in the RV, but thanks to wonderful friends and family our…
GETTING THERE I’m not known for giving good directions so these may sound a little like Will Ferrell in “Elf” relaying his travels through the seven levels of the candy cane forest, through the sea of swirly-twirly gum drops…
If you bust out your happy dance at the mere thought of Puebloan ruins then Wupatki National Monument better make your bucket list. The area was believed to have been a huge farming and trading community based on Hopi…