Holbrook-Navajo Blvd

Today was a day of contrasts, consistency and also a mild cock-up.

To the latter first. You remember that great plan of heading south to avoid the snow – well I have ended up staying in a town that is at nearly 7000ft so I have even more snow and all of the local trails in the Sitwell-Apache National Forest are closed. So, that is...

Notre vraie aventure commence enfin, apres s'etre tape toute cette route! Hallucinant, ces arbres petrifies, temoins du passe luxuriant d'un endroit maintenant desertique et desole.

Entree gratuite dans les Parcs Nationaux en ce jour du souvenir. Nous en profitons et passons environ quatre heures ici pour decouvrir cet endroit bien spe...

Today not much happened but a whole lot of driving 520 miles from Amarillo to Holbrook,AZ. We have 4 more hours in the morning to arrive at home. We have had a really great trip. We were able to do almost everything we planned, plus some thing we didn't plan like the corn maze in Oklahoma, also some interesting experiences. One being when we we...

We continued from Texas into New Mexico stopping briefly at White Sands National Monument. The monument is in the middle of a missile testing ground and there is nothing for miles around but sand and dunes. Tom was comparing it to the planet Arrakis and kept professing that he could be the Kwisatch Haderach. It was unbearably bright on the whit...

Well today was a good day for travel. I decided to scrap stopping at any more places. And just get home. My hotel room last night was very nice. This morning I decided to take advantage of the whirlpool tub in my room. It was nice however the way the jets were aimed when I turned them on a bunch of water splashed out of the tub and onto my palm ...

When we got up this morning, the first thing that we noticed was that the wind had not died down in the night. Quite the opposite in fact, it was howling around the building like never before and through the window we could see little clouds of dust being blown across the road. We couldn't let it interrupt our plans though and we packed up the c...

A late start but we got to Café Bellagio for breakfast. It would be lovely to have such fine dining experiences every morning, but I think we've taken care of the breakfast budget for the rest of the week. Aviva thought she'd like to see the dancing waterfalls so we wandered over but I guess they only perform at night. Didn't matter, Daniel's c...

Was it time to move on? I left Montosa RV Park on the Plains of Saint-Augustine with regret. Yesterday as I was procrastinating in writing about my revelation from 3 days ago, I sat outside in the sun and read a couple of sheets of paper I had picked up at the Rock Shop about Smithsonite. I also read a Real Estate magazine I had picked up in Mag...

The human palette is designed to allow us to enjoy wildly contrasting flavours. It is possible to have a mouthful of curry and then follow it with bite of a chocolate bar and enjoy both. That's exactly what Flagstaff has been like after Vegas, it just takes a few chews to get used to it. Flagstaff is described in our Lonely Planet book as a plac...