Monthly Archives: July 2010

Locomotives, Local Food, Loco Neighbors

When you stay at a place called “Railside” you know trains are somewhere nearby, and when we saw how close the tracks were to the park, we wondered if we’d be disturbed at all hours. We soon found out the … Continue reading

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More Than Grand – Part 2

After a day’s rest — a long walk exploring downtown Flagstaff — we headed back into the park and down the South Kaibab Trail. Does Ellen look geared up or what?!? If we thought the view looking up the Canyon … Continue reading

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More Than Grand

Back in July of 2001 we rafted the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. It was an amazing, exhilerating experience we’ll never forget (the photo on the upper left of the title banner was taken along one of the river’s … Continue reading

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May Day! May Day!

We were still having great weather as we travelled from Wickenburg up to Williams, which would be our home base for our visit to the Grand Canyon. Blue skies were a stunning backdrop to the saguarro cacti that soon surrounded … Continue reading

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Rainbows and…

Rusty after nearly five months without travelling, we dusted off our take-down checklist and packed up to leave Yuma in late April. We wanted to visit a Rainbow SKP park, so we headed to North Ranch, outside of Wickenburg, AZ. … Continue reading

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Moving On

Sometime in March we started to see RVs vanish from Yuma. Before long the same constant traffic that we’d seen a few months before coming into the area was repeating itself but in reverse. Gaps started showing in the RV … Continue reading

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