Mesa Verde protects the cliff dwellings, kivas, pit houses, pueblos, masonry towers, and farming structures of the Ancestral Pueblo peoples who lived here for more than 700 years. This park undoubtedly contains the most notable and best preserved dwellings…
We’ve seen a lot of cliff dwellings and Puebloan ruins on our travels. What Hovenweep is known for is its detailed structures in a variety of shapes and sizes, including square and circular towers as well as D-shaped dwellings…
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…
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…
As the name implies, Jemez Springs, has mineral springs that have been attracting people for centuries. After a beautiful morning of driving through the Valles Caldera National Park, we saw the first sign of these mineral springs, Soda Dam.…
The Bradbury Science Museum is the chief public facility of Los Alamos National Laboratory. If it sounds familiar it’s likely because of the Manhattan Project, a research and development undertaking during WWII that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the…
