We arrived in Yosemite in the sunshine with the weather still chilly enough to need our sweatshirts. The great part about visiting Yosemite in early March is that the teaming hoards of tourists haven’t quite gotten there yet, and so we got to experience a…
Leaving Joshua Tree, we continued our journey out to the West Coast. It had been a while since we had seen the Pacific Ocean and we were excited to dip our toes back in it – especially since the last time we’d done that was…
Continuing our journey westward, we landed in the small town of Twenynine Palms, CA. I am assuming that somewhere in the vicinity are 29 very cool looking palm trees, but we were on the hunt for the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park. Turns out…
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…
