Janaury 11. 2017 Our four wheel drive today started from Table Mesa Road on the I-17 in Arizona and the destination was a balanced rock that one of the guys had seen about 10 years previously. This was a very rough road trip with several stream crossings into the Bradshaw Mountains. We actually found several…
October 27,28 On the way to Canyon De Chelly in northern Arizona, we stopped first in Winslow, AZ. The first stop was on old route 66 to a restaurant made famous by a song by the Eagles, “Taking it Easy” with a line “Well, I’m a standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona and such a…
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…
We traveled to Chicago in August to see friends and for our 50th College Reunion ( I will spare you photos of that event). We visited friends near Earlville, IL – about an hour west of Chicago. The flat corn and soybean farms provided a dramatic backdrop for a rain storm moving in. We toured…
July 27, 2016 Watson Lake near Prescott, AZ. The Phoenix Camera Club had a field trip to Watson Lake near Prescott, Arizona. This small lake is in an area where many granite boulders are located. The area supports a good recreation and camping area, where many people enjoy kayaking and fishing on the lake. It…
May 21-28 We took the family to Kauai for our 50th Anniversary and stayed in a fabulous ground floor condo at Lae Nani, right on the beach. With three grand children much of the time was spent at beaches – snorkeling and surfing. I will spare you from those photos. Kauai is generally know as…
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