Santa Fe, NM to Mesa Verde, CO
Odometer: 25,450 It's Saturday, we get up early and look forward to getting out of the hotel. Quickly, while having our morning coffee, we have a look at the map and decide that Mesa Verde…
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Santa Fe, NM
We spend the morning working, since we had been on the road all day yesterday. Then our dear car gets a whole lot of attention again: about 10 days ago we noticed that the paint…
Read MorePetrified Forest National Park, AZ
Odometer: 25,109 Having a flat tire yesterday and therefore having to return to Holbrook, AZ, gave us a second chance to visit the Petrified Forest National Park - and this time with blue skies and…
Read MoreThunderstorms and the 2nd flat tire in a week
In the morning we check the internet again to see if we can find a nicer place to stay in Flagstaff for another week or so and end up calling a lady who has a…
Read MoreSunset Crater & Wupatki National Monument
We don't want to run into bad weather again today, therefore we leave earlier. At around 10am we arrive at the Sunset Crater Vulcano National Monument and it is already a bit cloudy. Sunset Crater…
Read MoreArboretum at Flagstaff, AZ
The Arboretum at Flagstaff is a 200 - acre botanical garden, research station, and environmental education center whose mission is to help visitors understand the plants and animal habitats of the Colorado Plateau. They claim…
Read MoreJerome, Tuzigoot & Red Rocks
We have seen enough of Prescott and vicinity and are ready to move on. We leave the hotel at around 8am towards North. We first drive through high desert until we get up to about…
Read MoreAnother day in Prescott, AZ
It is cloudy today as well, which is normal at this time of the year because it's Monsoon season and that brings almost daily rain and thunderstorms. Today the sky is especially beautiful with lots…
Read MoreMore Lakes – Prescott, AZ
There are lots of lakes around Prescott - some of them I would rather call ponds though. This is certainly true for Granite Basin Lake, which we visit today. To get there we drive through…
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