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On to Carlsbad via Roswell...Thought we would see a lot of cool UFO items..NOT! One small museum,a couple of signs. Think the outer space interest has faded here. This was the most foul smelling town we've ever encountered. Found out it is completely surrounded by mega beef cattle holding pens. Oh my! Hurried on to White plains in time to see the lovely sunset but no bats! There was a huge fire in June and all the bats had gone elsewhere for food. The caverns the next day however AWESOME! Never saw anything so massive in our lives. 2 and 1/2 miles downhill all the way into the abyss. Lots of weird formations like popcorn rock, flows, curtains etc. The rooms were very large. The "grand room" was at least 30-40 feet high, some places more ... read more

Left in early for the South Rim, a 130 mile drive. We retraced the road north out of Kaibab Forest that we had traveled after dark two nights before. Spectacular landscape, 2,000 foot cliffs above us, crossing the Colorado river before it enters the Grand Canyon. Drove into the park via the Desert View Road from the east. Stopped at look outs along the way and reached the visitor's center by 3 PM. We stayed to listed to an unhappy ranger give a talk on the endangered Condor then joined Joanie and Tony at our campsite in Williams (55 miles south of the Canyon, much too far away). The next day we rented a car and drove to the Canyon. Took a bus to the the West from the visitor's center and hiked trails along the ... read more

Just a day for fun in the sun. We donned our swimsuits, rented a speed boat, packed a lunch and took off to cruise Lake Powell! What a great time! Pulled up to a small beach and had our lunch, then everyone water skied or at least tried to. We spent the rest of the afternoon gawking at the surroundings and wishing we had more time here. After a well needed shower, got on the cycle (Greg M. notice we really do ride the cycle.) and went to Page, the nearest town, loaded up on groceries and hit the road to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.On the way there, we saw some of the reddest rock formations on Rt 59 and 89. Even got out on a very dark highway to look at the ... read more

We heard rain all night and hoped it would be gone by the time we started our day..Not! Our friend Tony also had developed back problems so no Motorcycle trips today. Steve ended up riding ours 24 miles in the rain to rent a car for all of us to use. We all piled in after lunch and headed to Bryce Canyon. We ended up with some wonderful photos despite the low lying clouds and fog. It is hard to believe that one canyon could have such diverse landscape. God never ceases to amaze!! Despite the weather, we had a terrific day with our good friends from CA.... read more

After breaking camp at Devil's Canyon we drove the motorhome south to Gooseneck State Park. There we saw the Colorado river cutting its way through the canyon floor. We off loaded the motorcycle in this remote park and left for a 100 mile round trip into AZ to see Monument Valley, deep in the Navajo Nation. After returning to the motor home, (Maggie was frantic as we were gone for 4 hrs) we loaded up and drove north along scenic route 95. We entered the canyon floor of ancient rivers with side walls over 1,500 feet. The colors were spectacular and around every turn the landscape was more impressive than the last. We crossed lake Powell in the upper end of Glen Canyon National Park. We drove past a massive Capital Reef with 1,000 foot rock ... read more