Travel Blogs from Arizona City, United States
Day 3 - Grand Canyon
... the Grand Canyon. We headed out and soon drove north on I-17 towards Flagstaff. Since this is my first visit to Arizona, I was surprised to see green landscape when we entered the Verde Valley about 45 minutes north of the hotel. No, it ...
If you like sunrise, this ones for you...
2 nights in a very warm canyon. Took me back to brownie camp where all the lights are out by 10:30 and everybody gets up really early to go and do something with a backpack and their walking shoes on. In the brownies it was a trek through ...
Almost there
Wow, we are here again after 39 years.Bridge is somewhat differnet as it now has water under it. We enjoyed the lights and Xmas music. Neat. Puts you in the spirit. We were not coming here at this time but had to make a detour as the road to Needles, CA ...
Tuba City, Arizona Day 1
I drove from Phoenix to Tuba City wanting to take my time but unable to do so. It's so easy to drive in the Southwest US. The landscape is breathtaking, the scenery constantly changing. In Phoenix it was 80 degrees. By the time I got to Flagstaff it was ...
Grand Canyon arrival & chopper
8/11/08 - Grand CanyonWe were up early for breakfast and breaking camp and off for about 08:30 for the drive to the Grand Canyon! We stopped off for about a half hour at a supermarket for supplies. The first major stop was at Glen Canyon Dam, where, ...
Jagged big rocks, jagged little pills.
... for a train at LA's union stn i read in the paper that california was the first state to plunge into recession; in Arizona ... it was Iceland. While at the grand canyon Alexander called to say that my bank - Kaupthing - had been nationalized and that ...
Singed at the Lake
Managed to get up for the hotel breakie then headed to the lake (only a five minute walk away!) – it was so beautiful! Proper sandy beach and lots of palm trees dotted along. Plus super clear water which was a pretty good temperature considering ...
Lake Havasu City
Spent all day with Aunt Sue and Joey. My highlight was going to the dog park. I think this would be a great date place. I was thoroughly entertained. We made a camp fire and had a delicious meal over that campfire, with smores of ...
First day in Grand Canyon
Après un déjeuner rapide dans la cafet du General Store (un délicieux sandwich au corned beef),nous prenons le green bus pour aller au Yaki Point.Puis le blue bus pour arriver à Yavapai Point. Le panorama est grandiose ! Par contre, pour ...
Grand Canyon
We left the lodge and travelled around the south side of the Canyon De Chelly. We stopped at all the overlooks for David and Ellen to take some photos. Once again we saw the ruins of the ancestral Puebloian sites inside the rock ledges. Canyon de Chelly ...
WWB Waterfalls Class & Fireworks
There were many fabulous seminars to be attended this weekend and I took photos of the class on making waterfalls. There are many formulas for making the composition that actually burns in the waterfall, the one we used was designed specifically to ...
The Trip's First Casualities
Day 11 Grand Canyon Arizona to Tuba City to Arizona 80.7 miles 2885 ft climbing Lo! Eric and Carolyn are quitting the trip. Eric feels too weak to carry on following the food poisoning episode and Carolyn is going home with him. Mark, one of ...
On the road to Grand canyon
Après déjeuner,nous partons à 12h30 de Vegas,direction Grand Canyon. Nous visitons le barrage du Hoover Dam.Le temps est magnifique. Nous passons par Kingsman,puis Williams où nous faisons le plein. Arrivée à 20h à Grand Canyon Village ,hotel ...
Preparing to leave
I am currently entering the state of being completely overwhelmed as I prepare to leave for Benin. I am trying to enjoy the last few days of clean drinking water and the simple flip of a tap, light at the flick of a switch and a mode of transportation ...
From the Grand Canyon
... Found our campsite, had dinner, and went to bed early This morning, up at 5:30 (we discovered on arrival here that all of Arizona except the reservations does NOT go on daylight time, so though in the Rocky Mountain time zone, they are on the same time ...
Our fellow cyclists
... can kick) cross over the spectacular Parker Dam and beautiful lake with huge grasses and pedal our way to Lake Havasu City. Sounds so beautiful and when we arrive it's a complete dump. How do the Americans manage to have the most ...
Grand Canyon
After a bad nights sleep, we were picked up on time at 6:30 and taken to the bus companies main office to pay for the tickets, and we then received a continental breakfast. Sounds fancy, right? Wrong...it consisted of a small prepackaged danish and a ...
Indians Everywhere...
... hot, dry, windy and dusty so we peeled out of there after a little bit and drove the last 75 miles of the day to Tuba City, Arizona. I was pulling up Priceline as we came into the "city" which was bigger than many of the places we've been through, ...
Golden Shores to Lake Havasu City
Golden Shores to Lake Havasu City 40 miles 4 hours 10 mph average Up pretty early because I was sleeping in a park that was called Veterans Park and it just happened to be on Veterans Day. Never been to Lake Havasu but wow is it ...
Western Winterblast
Western Winter Blast ran from Thursday Feb 14 thru Sunday Feb 17 This year we did a memorial fireworks show for our lost friends Jerry Mignano and Thomas Walker III. Weather was perfect this year. Jackie ...
On the road again - Yuma to Lake Havasue
It was only supose to be a 3 1/2 hour drive, on a beautiful day. I am not real keen on traveling alone, but the advantage is the ability to stop if I see something and turn around if I have to . . . as with the ...
Grand Canyon
Arrived at the Mather campground located close to the Grand Canyon, the first thing I did.... hold on the second.... the tent is always first! I did some washing!!!!!!! $3.75 for the experience but so worth it!!! $2.00 for the shower..... ...
Lake Havasu City
... say it will be about an hour so we head off. The scenery is gorgeous with spectacular rock formations everywhere, especially as we enter Arizona. We managed to get a tow behind a semi for most of the way which saved us a bunch of gas. Coming into ...
Abfahrt vom Grand Canyon
... zu machen. Lecker wars, aber wenig ertragreich. Nach 20 Meilen gings zurück und auf den Weg nach Bullhead City, unserem Zwischenstopp auf dem Weg nach San Diego. Die Fahrt dorthin war recht eintönig (wir verbrachten mehrere Gelegenheiten damit, ...
SPRING BREAK WOOOO!!!! (Fail lol)
... or anything to get into the truck....literally haven’t a clue how they got in that beast! We arrived in Lake Havasu City earlier than we expected and checked into the hotel. We headed straight to the pool and bar and got ourselves some margaritas! ...
21st July - So this canyon, you say it's grand?
Las Vegas - Grand Canyon By the time we got back to the hotel this morning there was no point in trying to sleep, I was still buzzing too much from the night we had just experienced. I went to grab some breakfast at 7 a.m. with Meagan and Mel but I ...
Grand Canyon
... goats). After lunch we walked along the rim from the lodge to Mather Point, checking out all the beautiful views. Home for a rest and another chance to try to watch the sunset over the Canyon. It was much better tonight. Dinner was at the Arizona ...
HOT-HOT on the Arizona Nevada Border
We left the high country and the cool temperatures of the Grand Canyon and followed the Colorado River down to the Bullhead City, AZ/Laughlin, NV area, where HOT can barely describe what it's like here! At 11 in the morning, it's 106 degrees in the ...
22nd July - A different perspective of the Canyon
Grand Canyon National Park Today we headed off at 8:30 a.m. for one of the most spectacular experiences of the whole trip, a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon! The view of the canyon from the ground was amazing, but the view from the air was ...

