The wallpaper on our MAC computer is of a gorgeous twist in a slot canyon assumed to be in some far off exotic country that would take days of hiking to reach – a “yeah, maybe someday” kind of place.  To our great surprise, it’s actually a picture within Lower […]

Headed out of Grand Canyon National Park en route to Moab, UT, we decided to roll along a highway hugging the mountainside to make an impromptu stop at Horseshoe Bend, a famous “horseshoe-shaped incised meander of the Colorado River.” It’s a relatively easy 3/4 mile hike to an awe-inspiring view of the 1,000-foot drop and […]

With a good overview of the Grand Canyon under our belts, we spent the next week exploring as much as possible. “Theo” was parked just off a rarely used forest service road, minutes from the park entrance (thank you Campendium for guiding us to so many beautiful, remote locations lately). After each […]

At 277 miles long, 10 miles across and 1 mile deep, the Grand Canyon is vast. And while we knew there was no way to see all of it during our stay, we thought a helicopter tour was a pretty good way to get an overview of the vistas, valleys, […]

We spent the night in the Kaibab National Forest and then made a spontaneous stop en route to the Grand Canyon at Bearizona Wildlife Park. This park is a place of ooohs and ahhhs where one can get up close and personal with some of the wildest animals God created. A jaguar, wolves, and […]

From White Sands, it was about a 5 hour straight shot across I-10 to get to Tucson, Arizona. While Tucson has natural beauty and is an RV snowbird mecca, we came here to visit Matt’s longtime friend Ian from high school. For about the next week, we made the KOA our home […]