We left Tuscon and headed north towards Phoenix with baseball on our minds. The spring baseball practice league, referred to as the Cactus League contains several teams who are located in the Greater Phoenix area. My favourite team, The Seattle Mariners, play out of Peoria…
We left the cold of northern Arizona and excitedly drove south for some much needed warmth. It was a surprise in several ways when we arrived in Tuscon. First of all, it was a bit of a shock to the system to all of a…
As I said in my previous post, our headquarters for this last bit of time in the north of Arizona was the town of Winslow, home of that famous phrase. We found a nice little motel where we stayed for the 3 nights we were…
As we continued our journey westward the temperature was dropping into the teens at night – much too cold for us in the van. We stopped in a small town on our way to Arizona to avoid some nasty weather, finding a decently priced hotel…
We left Bandelier and headed towards Albuquerque but had one more stop outside of Santa Fe. We had heard about Tent Rocks from the Tourist Info centre and really wanted to check it out – rocks in the shape of tents? Who wouldn’t want to…
As we headed north in New Mexico, the temperature was dropping. Because of this, we had decided that we would go no further than Santa Fe, keeping the Grand Canyon for another time. We reached Santa Fe early in the afternoon and stopped in at…
From Carlsbad, we headed northwest, stopping at Oliver Lee Memorial State Park for an overnight. This lovely campground overlooks the valley below and has great cooking shelters for each campsite and wonderful showers! Big plus for us! The next day we headed out to spend…
We drove north from Texas, arriving near the entrance to the famous Carlsbad Caverns late in the day. We found a campground where we park the van overnight and as we listened to the wind howling outside during the night, were happy we weren’t tenting! …
We woke up early, as as planned, packed up quickly and drove the 1 1/2 hours over to Rio Grande Campground. We arrived right behind another car and joined with the young driver to ask the park attendant how we should proceed in finding a…
After a rainy and windy night, the temperature had dropped and we were happy with our decision yesterday to do a short hike up at the Chisos Basin as it surely would be a cold one up there today! With no rain in the forecast,…
