I was going to write a blog post each day, but the activities of each day tired me out too much. Instead, I am summarizing the entire week in one mega-post… After Conor’s arrival late Sunday night, we jumped right into the activities Monday morning. I first took him to...
Now that was a day worth living! After leaving Nicole’s yesterday morning, I was driving North out of Phoenix when I decided to drop in at the gym one last time before leaving the area. Another great workout and a second shower in one day (I’m splurging now) started the...
City of Rocks State Park was born some 33 million years ago from a volcanic eruption (I’m sensing a trend) 1,000 times more powerful than Mount St. Helen’s. Over time erosion has created the rock ‘city’ we see today. I had read up on the park last year, in hopes...
Red Rock State Park is a state park in Arizona featuring a red sandstone canyon outside the city of Sedona. The main mission of this day-use park is the preservation of the riparian habitat along Oak Creek, but there are 5 miles of hiking trails to explore. On a personal...
Located along a steep hillside full of hairpin turns and shocking drop-offs, this old ghost town has life in it yet. Once called the “Wickedest Town in the West,” Jerome was a budding city of brothels and saloons back at the turn of the century, when copper mining was king....
With my son in town for the holiday, I have devoted myself to entertaining him as much as I could entertain a teenager. Today we took the hour drive down Hwy 49 to Calaveras Big Trees State Park to see if we can mingle with the huge redwoods… Unfortunately, thanks...
We stumbled into a what turned out to be a fantastic park. Kerrville-Schreiner Park in Kerrville, Texas is what RV camping should be and all for the right price. Sure we could have spent $40 a night and had all the amenities but Kerrville-Schreiner Park also has camp areas in...
After leaving Poncho Villa State Park in New Mexico it was a quick and painless drive into and through El Paso, TX where we refueled and continued driving South-East all the way to Van Horn, TX. This made for a 200-mile day of driving although it felt like much less....
After a few hours of driving East on Hwy 9 we came up on Columbus, NM and the Pocho Villa State Park where camping (with electric & water) was a mere $14 per night. It didn’t take much discussion to agree that a warm shower and a 120v plug was...
“Born in present-day Arizona, Cochise led the Chiricahua band of the Apache tribe during a period of violent social upheaval. In 1850, the United States took control over the territory that today comprises Arizona and New Mexico. Not hostile to the whites at first, he kept peace with the Anglo-Americans...
