June 2019 We embarked on our RV Van trip on May 31 and returned home by July 1, having covered over 5600 miles and 16 states and visited many friends and relatives. These are a few photos of stops along the way. The first stop was an RV park near Albuquerque, NM. It just so…
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April 4 and 7, 2019 Part 3: Joshua Tree National Park is in southeastern California and has a diverse landscape. The story is that the Mormons named the tree after a biblical prophet, Joshua with up raised arms. Joshua Trees are part of the Yucca family and grow in elevations from 2000 to 6000 feet.…
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April 5, 2019 – CA State Route 58 in northern Carrizo Plain Part 2 of the California wildflower trip. The Carrizo Plain maybe little known except to photographers and hikers as it is very remote with no services for miles. It is located about 40 miles west and slightly north of Bakersfield, CA. This is…
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April 4, 2019 Antelope Valley Poppy Preserve The rains this year, in the Southwest, have made for a Super Bloom in both California and Arizona. We now travel in a Mercedes Sprinter RV RoadTrek Van, it is 22 feet long and has all of the amenities to be self contained. I want to focus on…
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January 31, 2019 We were trying out our new (2014) RV Roadtrek Van at Earl, CA, an RV Resort, across from Parker AZ. We decided to take a trip north a little further to Oatman, AZ on old Rt. 66. Oatman was started over 100 years ago as a mining camp. In 1915 two miners…
November 28 and Dec 11, 2018 The trip in November was along the Salt River, where we were able to photograph several wild horses including a young one. Then we went into the hills north of Saguaro Lake. This is the confluence of the Salt and Verde Rivers, one of the water supplies for Phoenix.…
Nov. 14, 2018 Today we approach Sedona from the south side starting on the Bill Gray road just a little north of Cottonwood. It takes a little while but we begin to see the red sandstone formations that are characteristic of the Red rocks of Sedona. We stopped numerous times for photos. Eventually as we…
October 24, 2018 On our four wheel drive trip, we were in search of fall color and water in the creeks due to heavy rains in the past month. Who said the desert is always dry? We traveled up I-17 and got off at the Sedona exit, only we went east instead of to Sedona.…
May 24, 2018 We visited the old stockyards in Fort Worth which are no longer used, but are a tourist attraction with lots of restaurants in the old cattle pens. Twice a day there is a small long horn cattle drive down the street for the benefit of the tourists. Between 1866 and 1890, 4…
May 20, 2018 On our way to Dallas, TX, we stopped at White Sands National Monument and stayed over night in nearby Alamogordo, NM. The white sands are truly a dazzling white in the bright sunshine. The dunes cover 275 miles in the Chihuahuan Desert and the monument preserves about half of them. The dunes…
April 25, 2018 This is a 4 wheel drive trip report in the Castle and Buckhorn Creek drainages. However do not look for any water photos in the creeks, as we have had only a 0.5 inches of rain since last September. The first stop is Castle Hot Springs Resort which is being restored to…
April 20, 2018 On an overnight trip to Yuma, AZ, we visited the Cloud Museum right over the border in Bard, CA. The museum is owned and operated by Johnny Cloud since 1989 and is open only in the winter or by appointment in the summer. Mr. Cloud has cornered the Southwest market on Model…
