We had three lovely days at Zion National Park. It has been many years since we’ve been there because it’s a little bit out of the way for us – too far south for our usual route into Utah and too far north for getting into Arizona, and it’s difficult to find a campsite there. [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009 Home again
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Friday, October 30, 2009
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From Needles, we headed south to Monument Valley, a spectacular area, with orange and crimson buttes all over the place. We spent a night in the town of Mexican Hat, a tiny hamlet named after the rock formation above town. We drove around the Valley of the Gods, a dirt-road circuit that meanders past dramatic [...]
Saturday, October 24, 2009
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Alamosa, 40 miles from Great Sand Dunes, was the destination for Sunday afternoon. They had a wildlife reserve and I wanted to see if there were any cranes there. I drove out to look and what a disappointment. Not only had the water been drained from most of the land I was driving around, but [...]
