Summer Road Trip (Part 3 of 4)
For the complete trip be sure to read parts 1, 2 and 4. While in the Black Hills we ventured out to three national parks not terribly far from where we were staying.
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Summer Road Trip (Part 2 of 4)
To read about the entire road trip be sure to read Part 1, 3, and 4. After Great Sand Dunes National Park we headed to the Black Hills for a week of fun. Keeping with our lunch in parks theme we stopped at Library Park in Ft. Collins, Colorado. Oh my word…this is a gorgeous town! Or at […]
Summer Road Trip (Part 1 of 4)
On each of our trips my favorite parts almost always are not the reason why we are on the trip. That was once again the case on our most recent road trip. Our destination for this trip was South Dakota and the trip centered around Mount Rushmore. In looking for a place to stay about […]
Life Is Good
Our weekend consisted of camping, fishing, flying kites and playing with worms. Life doesn’t get much better than that in my opinion.
Roper Lake State Park
Roper Lake is in southeast Arizona near Safford. I was really impressed with Roper Lake. Roper has RV sites, camp sites and even cabins.
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument is near Wupatki National Monument just outside of Flagstaff, AZ. It is estimated that Sunset Crater last erupted sometime between 1080 and 1100.
Wupatki National Monument
Wupatki National Monument is just outside of Flagstaff, Arizona off of US 89. I have lived in Arizona my entire life and am just now finding out about some of these gems. Wupatki was established to preserve the Citadel and Wupatki pueblos and back in its day this was a happenin’ place. We were here on […]
Saguaro National Park
I have spent the last couple of months studying for a test for work and it has consumed all of my free time. Now that the test is behind me I am planning to spend more time on me. If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. I need to get back into a regular exercise […]
Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, NM
For the first half of this trip read the making the best of a situation post. We had such a good time in Albuquerque and wish we would have spent our entire week here. After a rough first half of the trip Albuquerque was a breath of fresh air. Our reason for visiting Albuquerque was to attend […]
Making The Best Of The Situation
The theme of this trip was go with the flow. The trip didn’t exactly go as planned but if you do something often enough things are bound to not go as planned occasionally.