Carlsbad Caverns NP - NM
29. April 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Rising from the Chihuahuan Desert are the Guadalupe Mountains and underneath these mountains is Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Just behind the Visitor Center the Park staff accommodation, built inWeiterlesen
Kings Palace Tour, Carlsbad Caverns NP
29. April 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Brilliant tour, amazing it’s like we’re in an alien world.
Petroglyph National Monument - NM
2. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
On the edge of Albuquerque, New Mexico is Petroglyph National Monument. After a tour of the visitor centre we drove 6 miles to the trail head at Piedras Marcadas Canyon. There are around 5000Weiterlesen
Meteor Crater, AZ
5. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Around 50,000 years ago a 150 foot meteor crashed to earth here at 26,000 mph, amazing place. The crater is nearly 1 mile wide and currently 550 feet deep, it’s gradually being filled in by erosionWeiterlesen
Walnut Canyon National Monument, AZ
7. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
It has been more than 700 years since Walnut Canyon echoed with the words and sounds of a vital pueblo community. The Island Trail leads you back in time, and welcomes you into the world of the peopleWeiterlesen
Charles Johnstone
Looks like there is a wee head lower down also peeping round the tree. Perhaps a ghost from the distant past ?.
Drive Into Monument Valley, UT
8. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Staying at Goulding’s campground for a few days to explore Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. Drive in was spectacular.
Goulding's Campground, Monument Valley
8. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
After dinner stroll just as the sun was going down on the ‘View’ and ‘Arch’ trails from the campground.
Wildcat Trail - Monument Valley
9. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
4 mile hike round West Mitten Butte, may not sound far, but it was down and back up a very steep red sandy trail with temperatures in the 90Fs. It was roasting, although we had some cloud cover roundWeiterlesen
Monument Valley Tour - Part 1
10. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Signed up at the blue kiosk by the visitor centre for the 2 1/2 hour cultural and Lower Monument Valley tour. Our vehicle was a pickup front with 3 rows of seats high up and open at the back. LarryWeiterlesen
Monument Valley Tour - Part 2
10. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Part of the tour is a visit to a Navajo Hogan, there are male (ceremonial) and female (family homes) hogans and the doors always face east. The small hogan behind the female one is a sweat lodge.Weiterlesen
Monument Valley Tour - Part 3
10. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ 🌧 28 °C
Last leg of the tour is into places only local guides can take you. Here we saw Sun Eye a hole in the roof of a huge cavelike structure in the sandstone rock. Petroglyphs by the Anasazi about 1000Weiterlesen
John Wayne's Cabin - Goulding's Lodge
10. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Interesting museum and the ‘cabin’ that was the Goulding’s potato cellar which Captain Nathan Brittles (John Wayne) lived in the 1946 film She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
Arches NP, Utah
13. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Great day out seeing some of the sites of stunning Arches NP. Moab is mobbed as The Rally of the Rocks is starting next week. Jeeps and side by side RZRs everywhere. So we’ll move on and come backWeiterlesen
Arches NP Flowers
13. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C
It must be springtime 🌺
Fossil Valley RV Park - Vernal UT
16. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
City RV Park in Dinosaur country which kindly allows washing of vehicles. So we’ve spent a couple of days washing the Coach and Jeep which were desperately in need of a clean inside and out.Weiterlesen
Utah Natural History Museum - Vernal UT
17. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Interesting visit taking us back in geological time. Information on the different rock layers and the dinosaurs that inhabited the area.
Dinosaur Quarry NM, UT
18. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Dinosaurs once roamed here and the ‘Wall of Bones’ in the Dinosaur Quarry is an amazing display of around 1500 large dinosaur fossils still imbedded and exposed in the rock wall. The first findWeiterlesen
Vernal Brewing Co
18. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Allosaurus and Rigor Mortis to quench our thirsts after a day out with the 🦕 🦖
Moonshine Arch - Vernal, UT
20. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Great hike up an off-road track to the amazing Moonshine Arch. Superb views over Steinmaker State Park. At our rest stop we were entertained by violet-green swallows flying overhead. On our way down aWeiterlesen
Red Canyon, UT
21. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
We’re 1700 feet above Red Canyon with the Green River running through it. Pretty impressive !!
On our way back we stopped at an overlook and were joined by a couple of fellow travellers in an 1973Weiterlesen
Red Fleet Dinosaur Trackway, UT
21. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
1.5 mile hike up, down, round and across sandy washes, ribs of exposed stone and slick rock, through a juniper grove to the edge of the Red Fleet reservoir. The flat slip rock sloping down to theWeiterlesen
Flora of the Dinosaur Trackway Trail
21. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Amazing variety of flowers on the sandy rocky trail. Interestingly shaped juniper trees with fruit lying on the sand, someone should open a gin distillery here !!
Wind River Brewery - Pinedale, WY
22. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
A chance meeting in Walmart, Rock Springs, Wyoming and result is a great meal and brew at the Wind River Brewery, Pinedale, WY. We were in a slow checkout line and Stew spoke to the guy in frontWeiterlesen
Beer Tasting
27. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
Abandoned trip to Grand Teton NP as it was raining and chilly when we drove there last Tuesday, we couldn’t even see the mountains !! We also were going to be boondocking with no electric and whenWeiterlesen
Idaho Falls, ID
28. Mai 2018 in den USA ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
It’s always good to get on our bikes and we’re amazed at how many comments and questions we get from people, it’s a bit like having a cute dog, people always stop to talk.
The Riverwalk loopWeiterlesen