It’s here! National Park Week starts this weekend, giving you zero reasons to stay home instead of exploring what Wallace Stegner called America’s “best idea.”
Tag Archives: Arizona
National Park Week Starts Saturday!
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Also tagged California, Colorado, National Parks, New Mexico, Oregon
No Lee, No Ferry, No Problem
Lee’s Ferry, on the Colorado River just before it enters Grand Canyon in Arizona, is where the one-armed adventurer, John Wesley Powell, began his epic rafting trip through the Canyon in the late 19th century.
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Also tagged National Parks, Rivers
The Best Little Truck Stop In Arizona
When I tell people I often stay overnight in the parking lots of truck stops, they either look appalled or concerned.
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Also tagged Truck stops
It’s Big, It’s Beautiful, and I Almost Missed It
It’s been quite a year. Terminal disease (my immediate family), not terminal but the same disease (me), plus medical procedures galore, funerals, and a breakup. Despite all that, there’ve been many great things, too. Like my camping trip in Grand Canyon, which almost didn’t happen because I’m a giant dork.
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Also tagged Camping, Hiking, Mishaps, National Parks
Grand Canyon Flora
In the interest of not getting totally behind with posting photos – she says as she hits the road again and can’t do any photo processing – here are a few photos of Grand Canyon’s surprisingly diverse plant life.
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Also tagged National Parks, Plants
Narrowing Down Such a Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon is a vast, overwhelming place. I took approximately one billion photos when I was camping there in April, and have (obviously, ahem) had a hard time organizing myself to share them with you. Here’s a start.
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Also tagged National Parks, People
Grand Canyon Teaser
I’ve been so busy (and now I’m on the road again) that I haven’t had time to process any of my Grand Canyon photos, but I didn’t want to leave you for too long without at least a bit of Canyon goodness.
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Also tagged Hiking, National Parks
Sunset Crater Volcano
Flagstaff, AZ is at the epicenter of National Park goodness because, you know, the Grand Canyon, but there are also beautiful ruins at Wupatki, and down the road there’s a 900-year-old volcanic crater.
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Also tagged National Parks, Volcanos
Wupatki
It’s pronounced Wuh-pot-key, and I’m thinking there’s some sort of joke there about legalized marijuana, but it’s escaping me at the moment.
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Also tagged National Parks, Ruins
The Sedona Vortex Deserted Me
Maybe it’s because I didn’t have the map.
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Also tagged Nature, Places I don't want to go back to