I finally made it back home. I left Tupelo, Mississippi at 8 AM and did a double day of driving and pulled into my driveway at 11:30 PM. I just couldn’t sit in the campground another day knowing I was so close to home. It’s … Continue readingBack Home
Yesterday’s drive was from Sayre on the west side of Oklahoma to Cheotah on the east side, with Oklahoma City in the middle. There was a number of places I could stop, but as one of my friends on the caravan said, I’m just museum-ed … Continue readingCowboys and Marilyn
Yesterday I decided to sight see in Albuquerque because it didn’t seem like there was much between Albuquerque and the rest of New Mexico. I went to Piedras Marcades Canyon and took a 1-1/2 mile hike to see Indian petrogylphs. They said there were over … Continue readingTexas
Remember the Eagles song “Take it Easy” where he sings… Well, I’m a standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, And such a fine sight to see It’s a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford Slowin” down to take a look at me. Since … Continue readingAlbuquerque
What a day! We went on a one-day rafting tour with the Hualapai Indians on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. I didn’t have my camera for the first half of the trip because we went down some serious rapids. We all thought it … Continue readingGrand Canyon
Today was another travel day. We had 3 hikes planned. The first one was Wire Canyon, a slot canyon 8 miles off the main road on Cockscomb Road. At first I didn’t want to go down the road because it was a dirt, but I … Continue readingHorseshoe Bend
We are camping at Dark Sky RV Campground in Kanab, UT. For all of us, this was our favorite campground. First of all, it had a children’s area off the back. It had a sand pit where they could dig for dinosaur bones and stars … Continue readingKanab
Today was a travel day, with lots of stops. Our first stop was Kodachrome Basin to hike the Shakespeare Arch trail. I had that Paul Simon song Kodachrome looping in my head “Baby don’t take my Kodachrome away.” It was a wonderful trail. Blake was … Continue readingHiking the Southwest
We camped just outside the entrance of Zion National Park for 2 nights. Since I booked this site back in January I was able to get one of the campsites right on the Virgin River. I was surprised that the water looked like chocolate milk … Continue readingZion
I picked up Katie and the girls at the Las Vegas airport. This airport isn’t RV friendly. Terminal 1 arrivals only allowed vehicles under 7 feet. So I was exited to Terminal 2 arrivals which only allowed 8 foot vehicles and was forced to exit … Continue readingLas Vegas