The Valley of Fire State Park was such an amazing, beautiful place! It was one of those places where the scenery and landscape just kept changing and dazzling me at every turn and bend in the road. Valley of Fire is located in the Mojave Desert about 58 miles Northeast of Las Vegas. Valley of …
Death Valley was an amazing place to visit. So much more beautiful than I ever thought. My friend, Becky, and I left Las Vegas early and drove two and a half hours on Hwy 95 to Beatty, which is the east entrance to Death Valley. Our first stop was the Rhyolite Ghost Town which was …
Viva Las Vegas!……..Wow! what a great week and a half I had here. So much fun! I arrived in Las Vegas and hooked up for a late afternoon lunch with a childhood friend from my hometown of Truckee CA….I had not seen Vickie since she moved away during our Freshman year of high school. It …
After seeing Kingman and still having a few days left before I needed to be in Las Vegas I decided to go to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon…….A three-hour drive away! I decided I had to take Route 66 which was 130 miles to Williams, AZ (The gateway to the Grand Canyon). From …
I left Blythe, CA on March 14, 2016, and headed for Kingman, AZ. It was such a great week spending time with my old high school friends Konny, and Carl. I pulled into Kingman just before dark and settled in for the night at Cracker Barrel, they are another company that lets RVers stay overnight in …
On Friday, March 11, 2016, my friend, Konny and I took a drive from Blythe, CA to Lake Havasu City, AZ. We drove to Parker AZ and followed the beautiful Colorado River up and over the Parker Dam, then on into Lake Havasu City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Havasu_City,_Arizona Colorado River Parker Dam https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/ReclamationDamsIrrigationProjectsAndPowerplants/Parker_Dam.html Wild Burros When you drive into Lake …
The last of my weekend travels with Colleen ended in Quartzsite, AZ where Colleen’s hubby met us to pick her up. But before heading on their way we found a few oddball attractions to visit there. Quartzsite is a small town with not much to do. It is flat desert, some roadside businesses, and tumbleweeds …
On Sunday, March 6, 2016, Colleen and I booked a tour of Canyon Lake. We made quite the entrance when we got ourselves delayed from other site seeing and lunch earlier in the day and then got behind sloooooooooooow traffic from Apache Junction to Canyon Lake. When we purchased the online tickets for a 4:00 …
Governor Hunt’s Pyramid Tomb was another one of the things we found on America’s roadside attractions website. George Hunt was Arizona’s first governor and served 7 terms between 1912-1933. He is buried in a pyramid made with white bathroom tile in Papago Park that overlooks the Phoenix Zoo. The pyramid stands 15 feet tall and …
My friend Colleen loves to take pictures, find whacky stuff and just go, go, go! She told me about this internet site called “America’s Roadside Attractions.” You go to the website, enter in the state and city and you will be directed to some interesting places. So on Saturday, March 4, 2016, we headed out …
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