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Arizona Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Arizona, United States
Home - YAY!!!
This is a top pick! I just love to come home from any trip, but this one was exhausting. I think we saw enough of Peru & Bolivia to make the trip eventful. Certainly would change a few things if wew did it next time time make our lives a little easier, and ...
Backroads to the Grand Canyon
This is a top pick! ... 'd left Vegas behind and were ooohing and ahhhing over the beautiful desert scenery. We passed by many little towns into the state of Arizona then Utah and then Arizona again before arriving at the place we had booked for the night called Jacob's Lake ...
Heading out in the morning
This is a top pick! Last chance to pack everything tonight. If it doesn't fit - it doesn't go...Typical last minute packing. Susan hasn't even started to pack yet (thanks American Idol) so I expect she will be up at 1am asking me where stuff is, I am sure. ...
Really Big Show, Really Big
This is a top pick! It was early when we departed from Route 66, but the queues for the Grand Canyon were already stretching. It was obvious we weren't the only ones here for a show, and it soon became clear why. The climb from the lowland desert ushered a slow ...
Cowboys
This is a top pick! ... As an aside, we passed through the four corners, an odd man-made geographical landmark for at the junction of Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. Itself not a wholly exciting landmark once again, but for some reason we found those who were more ...
Shave & a Hair Cut, Two Bits!
This is a top pick! I woke up at 2 am, laid in bed for a while, then was compelled to send an email out. Don't know why, but it seemed like I had to do it at that time. Now, to whom do you think I had to send an email out at 3 am? I had to ask ...
Ending one journey and starting another...
This is a top pick! CHANGING COURSE During my four months in Latin America, I achieved everything I set out to achieve. I traveled to places I only dreamed of and I woke up every day thrilled to spend my hours writing to my heart's content, while sitting on my balcony and ...
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign!
This is a top pick! "Signs" (As recorded by Five Man Electrical Band) LES EMERSON And the sign said "long haired freaky people, needn't ought apply" So I tucked my hair up under my hat, and I went in to ask him why He said ...
Life is Like a Bowl of Cherries,...
This is a top pick! ... the engine and transmission heat up too much. I'm also driving on the Interstate as it's the only route west in this part of Arizona...the old, historical, Route 66. I have about 200 kms to drive to the next campground. I've decided to make ...
Over the Great Continental Divide!
This is a top pick! ... are to spend a day visiting the south rim of the Grand Canyon and continue west to Kingman at the junction of Arizona, California and Nevada. The plan is to spend a few days there resting. Hopefully regaining some energy. My alternate ...
NOT! Touring the Grand Canyon.
This is a top pick! I get up and have to get ready to leave for the Grand Canyon visitor center. It's at least an hour's drive. The campground attendant gave me some brochures and an Imax coupon to see a show about the Grand Canyon. It was recommended that I see it before ...
Hoover Dam, Death Valley and the Grand Canyon
This is a top pick! ... zones (at certain times of the year). When you walk across the dam you start of in Nevada and finish up in Arizona. After walking around for some time and after several discussions of whether you would survive if you dived into the river ...
Get Your Kicks on Route 66
This is a top pick! ... days. One thing I have worked out is that all the public libraries provide free internet access so I am now a library card holder in 4 states and loving it. You register for a computer then they give you an hour on and then you can go back in the queue ...
Fort Bowie, Chiricahaua, Tombstone
This is a top pick! ... there were no people and it was very windy in this ghost town. Next I drove to Fort Bowie National Historic Site in Arizona. Of all the days in the summer in Arizona it just happened to rain today. I bet it won't rain ...
Trials and Tribulations of Preparations
This is a top pick! ... , buy traveler's insurance and go" Tonight is my last night with my cats for 6 months:( But it is also the second to last night in the United States for 6 months:) and before I leave to Guatemala:). Holy crap, I'm leaving to ...
Grand Canyon Helicopter Ride! Hell Yeah!
This is a top pick! ... . We took off for Tuba city, the entrance to Monument Valley and the Painted Desert http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_Desert%2C_Arizona . On the way there the trailer of the vehicle in front of us broke free from the truck in a shower ...
A Grand 'Ole Time
This is a top pick! My bus made it fine to Flagstaff and I set up camp in a local hostel. I decided to try biking again, this time to the Grand Canyon. So I set off the next day at 9 a.m., hoping to do at least 30 of the 80 or so miles that day, maybe more. Two and a half ...
The best laid plans ...
This is a top pick! ... back the 80-some-odd blocks to my motel room and felt good about my chances. The next day I decided I would bike to Flagstaff, Arizona, about 144 miles away. Silly boy. I knew it would take several days and was prepared for that, but what I didn't ...
Imagination, Hallucination, Revelation & Theories!
This is a top pick! The following is how my thought process, or enlightenment , if you wish to call it, has been progressing the past few weeks to arrive at a Theory that boggles my mind. It's no secret that I am a global thinker, I look at the big picture, and always have. ...
Going Home and Bits of Suggestions
This is a top pick! ... cheapest ticket takes you, try not to fall back into the old. These are the things I am telling myself as I readjust to the states. Day four is going quite well. I'm finishing my blog except I have loads of pics to add, that will be the true ...
Amtrak and Greyhound
This is a top pick! After our huge meal the night before, we decided to have a lie in and skip breakfast altogether. When we eventually emerged, I nipped down the road to pick up our anti-malaria tablets for Central and South America and Dan booked us on to the Amtrak to ...
Coronado and Tumacacori
This is a top pick! I drove 35 miles to Coronado National Memorial which is right at the border of the United States and Mexico. I drove up to Montezuma Pass Overlok (elevation 6,575 feet) for a spectacular view of the San Pedro Valley with the ...
The Grand Canyon
This is a top pick! ... own way from San Francisco), and hired a car for a couple of days. On the first day we went to Walnut Canyon (Arizona) where there is a large collection of cliff dwellings. These were really interesting - to see how these people lived long before the ...
Hopi Indian Reserve
This is a top pick! ... purposes. Thomas Banyacya also wrote of the Four Corners area: "Great Spirit told Hopi [that Four Corners is] the backbone of the United States. Hopi must hold land till Human Beings live in harmony." Also, in the Hopi Prophecy, a white man would come to ...
The Grand Canyon!!!
This is a top pick! The views of the south rim are as peaceful as they are dramatic. The canyon is over a mile deep and ten miles across but obviously we only got chance to see a tiny portion. The highlight of our visit was the helicopter ride we took which flew a ...
Preparation
This is a top pick! ... ; We plan or remaining in Cuzco at 11,000 feet for a few days to acclimatize to the altitude. Our riding gear for Arizona was not suitable for high altitude cold and it was a little difficult to find thermal underwear/socks and hand warming pouches when ...
Try Some Tucson Flavor
This is a top pick! ... Tucson try out the Roadrunner Hostel at www.roadrunnerhostelinn.com. Great, down to earth, clean, friendly atmosphere. Phoenix may be Arizona's capital but Tucson is it's cultural center. For another spin on Arizona visit Bisbee to the south and Flagstaff ...
Flagstaff and The Grand Canyon
This is a top pick! Well I've been slack and for that I apologise, but it's because I've been having such a DAMN GOOD TIME! Since my last entry I have been to Flagstaff, San Diego, Los Angeles, Hawaii and Fiji, and I have lovingly been writing these entries in Fiji just for ...