This will be the last posting on our trip to the Sierra Nevada in October 2019. This will feature four other places that did not have any fall color but are significant photo opportunities. I will give a brief preview of each of the four sites. The first is the Devil’s Postpile National Monument. We…
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…
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…
Oct 12, 2016 It was a glorious fall day in Arizona as we headed north up I-17 to the Stoneman Lake exit. Stoneman Lake and no water in it because of the drought, but the fall colors of the oak trees were in abundance. There is a community of summer homes on one end of…
Death Valley Flowers – February 16, 2016 See more Death Valley flower photos at Ophardtphotos.com This year in Death Valley, California they are having what is known as a Super Bloom. Three inches of rain in October, as a result of El Nino, have really brought out very many flowers for the first time since 2005. We…
June 25, 2014 In an effort to escape the heat of Phoenix we travelled to higher elevations in the Bradshaw mountains in search of the Desoto Mine. It is northwest of Cleator off of the Crown King road. The Desoto mine was opened in 1890-1972 and produced Cu, W, Ag, Au, Pb, Zn, and Fe.…
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