It’s time to hit the road again. This time we have set our sites on the great American Southwest, a place we haven’t visited in many years. Traveling with a group of friends we plan concentrate on New Mexico and…
First Day – Santa Fe
Spent our first day strolling around the heart of old Santa Fe. The sites we took in were the oldest church still functioning in the United States, the San Miguel Mission, with supposedly the oldest continuously standing house in the…
Searching For the Sun….Finding Taos
Early in the morning several of us decided to hike up Sun Mountain in Santa Fe as the sun was rising. It was an exhilarating hike with great views of the valley from the summit. We then proceeded up to…
How to Cook New Mexico Style!
If you want to eat like the locals, you have to learn to cook like the locals. So we all joined Chef Chris Maher and his wife Valerie at The Cooking Studio – Taos. It was located at their home…
Los Alamos and Bandolier National Monument
We started our day at the newest national park in the country-The Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Los Alamos. As they are still in the process of acquiring some of the original properties and working out details of access…
Acoma Reservation Pueblo and Window Rock
The morning started at the Acoma reservation and drive up to the Pueblo on top of a Mesa there. The rock formations on our drive in and around the Pueblo site were amazing. The first big monolith that you seeis…
Navajo Country – Canyon de Chelly, and on to Hopi Lands
The morning was spent on a 3 1/2 hour Jeep tour through the Canyon de Chelly. Here we saw cave dwellings, petroglyphs and pictographs dating back over 900 years and encompassing Native American tribes from the Anasazi through the Navajo.…
Pictures In Your Mind- Walpi Pueblo. Pictures For the Blog -Coal Mine Canyon, Arizona Desert Scenes, and Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell
Early this morning we drove back to First Mesa and the Hopi pueblo town of Walpi. You can see it way up on top of the mesa. It was by far the best of all of the Mesa pueblos that…
Rafting the Colorado River and the Road to Grand Canyon
Nothing better than a morning float down the Colorado River through Glen Canyon. At points the walls are over 1000′ high. Numerous birds, great scenery, and even a stop to look at petroglyphs that are most likely 900 to 1000…
Definitely Grand – Canyon That Is
We explored the South Rim of Grand Canyon today starting at Mather Point and then hiking the rim to Yavapai Point. We then headed to the east to Yaki Point and Pipe Creek Vista. Finally we hopped a bus to…