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Within the RV community, the tiny town of Quartzite, Arizona holds a mystique all its own. Surrounded by vast tracts of public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management Quartzite finds itself playing host to hoards of RV travelers every winter. Many are...
Like so many of us of a certain age, we grew up with strains of the Wild West playing in the background. The streets of Tombstone, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and other legends played on the television screens in our living rooms. Thus...
To view the Visitors Center Video click here An icon of the American West, the Sagauro (sah-WAH-row) are the giants among cacti found only in the Sonoran Desert, limited in the US primarily to southern Arizona. Who could resist getting up close and personal with a few...
Click Here for Park Videos It was a ranger in Big Bend who told us about Chiricahua National Monument near Willcox, Arizona in the southeastern part of the state. Knowing that legislation has been presented to Congress to change it's status to a national park, he...
No, Texas is not our current location. We're in southeastern Arizona, at an I-10 rest area north of places like Tombstone and Sierra Vista. As we zoom along I-10, traveling longer today than we'd like, we have Picacho, Arizona behind us and Las Cruces, New Mexico as...
See Park Video Centuries before Europeans knew of the vast American deserts, the Ancient Sonoran People thrived in a harsh desert environment here in what is now central Arizona. Near the town of Coolidge, between Phoenix and Tucson, is the Casa Grande Ruins National...
Our stay at the Picacho/Tuscon NW KOA is complicated by the construction project that not only is widening a four mile stretch of I-10 but was responsible for the disappearance of the town of Picacho, Arizona in July 2012. We learned about the demolition of the town...
Back in 1973 as we were traveling through this part of the country we were listening to Glenn Frey as lead vocalist of the Eagles on the radio singing Take it Easy about standing on the corner in Winslow, Arizona, lyrics he co-authored with Jackson Browne. A few years...
With Flagstaff behind us and Gallup as our planned destination for the day, we were eastbound on I-40 when we saw one of those intriguing brown signs. We were just eleven miles from the Barringer Meteor Crater so of course we had to visit! Some 50,000 years ago a...
See Park Video Oak Creek Canyon has been on our radar since 1973. Mr. Carr at Owen Cotter Jewelers in downtown St Petersburg mentioned it as we were planning our honeymoon trip but today was our first visit here. We drove south from Flagstaff planning to enjoy the...
Planning a trip? Dreaming of travel? Perhaps some of our adventures could inspire yours! Over the last several years we’ve had the distinct pleasure of many cross country journeys traveling though the Lower 48 in tents and our various teardrop campers as well as an amazing Alaska adventure that did not involve a camper.
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On our first visit to Iceland we did a self guided walkabout in the center of Reykjavik.
Our adventure in Halifax was an extremely informative visit to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic coupled with a beautiful walk from the ship and back again.
Departing aboard the Norwegian Pearl on a repositoning cruise as the first leg of a three month adventure.