From Zion National Park we headed over the Kaibob plateau in a full snowstorm and into the Vermillion Cliffs Scenic Byway (89a) towards Page, AZ. Ominous banks of…
The area surrounding Zion National Park was originally inhabited around 8000 BCE by groups of the native Anasazi, or Ancestral Puebloans, who were also responsible for the more…
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Day 524 – (Desert Roadtrip Part 1) – Driving the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded;…
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Day 464 – The city of Joshua Tree, CA, and the high desert.
We stayed in the Joshua Tree area for two months, the first month in a house in Yucca Valley, the larger town to the west, and a month…
Two hours east of San Bernardino through Cabazon (where the concrete dinosaurs in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure live), past Palm Springs and a series of steep climbs up into…
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Day 444 – Tucson, AZ – Discovering the ancient saguaro cactus.
Tucson sits about 60 miles north of the Mexico boarder in Arizona between California and New Mexico. This area has been populated by native people for over 12,000…
After several long spurts of driving and active sight seeing, we were ready for a brief repose. I had packed for a beach adventure a year and a…
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Day 405 – San Antonio, Texas – Looking for the basement of the Alamo.
It wasn’t until 1691 that Spanish explorers first met the Payaya Indians of the San Antonio River Valley. It was June 13, the feast day of Saint Anthony,…
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Day 394 – Austin, Texas – In search of TPS reports and high weirdness
Austin is a city I’ve always wanted to visit. I kind of thought I might have waited too long and all the tech hipsters might have drove the…
Our next stop was Austin, Texas, a 7.5 hour drive from Hot Springs, so we decided to break the drive up into two days and head through Shreveport,…