Finding Our Way
Great Basin National Park is known for you being able to experience desert heat and alpine cold all in one day with a diversity of geological formations. The entrance to Great Basin National Park is in Baker, Nevada and the park is most famous for both it’s Lehman Caves and
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We drove from Cedar City to Milford, Utah for a nice lunch stop and a short walk around the quaint town. Milford has a nice park with fountains, benches, and rose gardens along with some historic buildings. Milford is also home to World Champion Saddle Bronc Riders. After lunch we
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Our drive today took us from Jacob Lake, Arizona north into Utah and on to Cedar City. As we headed north along 89A we came to the LeFevre Overlook. This overlook provides great views into southern Utah of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. We continued on to Fredonia and then
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I have been going to the Grand Canyon for over 30 years and I never tire of the magnificent views. As much as we enjoy the South Rim we absolutely love the North Rim. It has so much more solitude, peace, and quiet and less crowds which translates to less
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We headed north from Phoenix towards Flagstaff and on north to Cameron which is a great place to fuel up and grab a Navajo Taco (my favorite). We continued on through the beautiful landscape of the Navajo Nation. We had a quick stop at the historic Navajo Bridge to check
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Pie Town, New Mexico is west of Datil along highway 60 about 20 miles and about 3 miles west of the Continental Divide. The town has a population of under 200 and got its name from a bakery that specialized in dried apple pies in the 1920s. Today it still
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The drive from Roswell to Datil is a little over 200 miles and took us through breathtaking scenery and great small towns. It was great to be back in the west. We headed through Picacho and Hondo gaining elevation as we drove. Picacho is a little over 3,900 feet and
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Welcome to Roswell, “Alien Country”. Roswell is the 5th largest city in New Mexico with a population of around 50,000 people (and maybe a few aliens). It is famous for an incident that occurred in 1947 which consisted of the recovery of crash debris which many thought was a UFO.
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Abilene State Park is about 15 miles southwest of Abilene and sits on the shore of Lake Abilene. The area used to be a campground for the Comanche and Tonkawa while they hunted buffalo as the herds came through nearby Buffalo Gap. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) developed most of
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Midway Park Campground is an Army Corp of Engineers (COE) campground in Waco, Texas and it sits on Lake Waco. It is a small campground with 38 sites (including tent sites). Some of the sites are on the lake, some sites have lake views, and other sites are near the
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