Blogs from Cottonwood, Arizona, United States, North America

This will be the last blog for our winter trip this year. It has been a another great adventure that started near the ocean at Gulf Shores State Park in Alabama and is ending at one of our favorite parks in the high desert of Arizona , Dead Horse Ranch State Park in Cottonwood. The name of this park has a story that goes back to the 1940's when the Ireys family was looking for ranch property to buy. After many days of seeing different properties Mr. Ireys asked the family which property did they think was best. The kids said the one with the dead horse, and the name stuck. In 1973 Arizona State Parks acquired the property on the condition that the name stay the same. Our stay at Dead Horse was made even ... read more

(Bonjour, ceci est le deuxième envoi du blogue no. 9. Il semble que certains d'entre vous aient eu de la difficulté à ouvrir le dernier.) Avant de poursuivre, veuillez excuser les fautes et erreurs de constructions de phrases dans le dernier blogue, y ayant travaillé de longues heures continues et pressée de le publier, les yeux ne distinguant plus! Mercredi 2 octobre 2013 Départ de St-George Utah vers Las Vegas Nevada avec un court passage en Arizona via l’autoroute 15 sud-ouest. Nous avons environ 200km à parcourir. Traversons une région très montagneuse en entrant en Arizona pour ensuite arriver à un paysage plutôt sec et aride et finalement de grandes plaines désertiques en entrant dans le Nevada, sans cesse balayés par un vent fort de côté nous poussant sans cesse dans le décor! Georges tient le ... read more

March 1st will always be remembered as the day we spotted the Elegant Trogon our 432nd life bird, and what a terrific bird it was. We had just arrived at Patagonia State Park on Patagonia Lake in the town of Patagonia , AZ, and decided to walk the birding trail. Folks coming off the trail were telling us to hurry because the trogon had been spotted. We had tried to find this elusive bird in 2006 but we always just missed it. We hustled down the trail and saw 2 people who waved us over, and there he was!!!! We watched him for such a long time, in fact we left before the trogon did. A few days later we joined a birding group and when the trogon was spotted the group became the stereotypical bird ... read more

We've enjoyed going to Sedona to take Ernie on several hikes - Broken Arrow was an all time favorite of Steve Wilson's and we loved it. Beautiful views and scenery during the entire hike. Then to Javelina Cantina for margaritas and $1 tacos! Yes, we do find the great happy hours. Another hike yesterday in Boynton Canyon and vista - what bright blue skies. Playing pickelball everyday and it's great fun. More later... read more

What Beauty we have in this country! We just spent 4 nights camping in the Grand Canyon. We had beautiful campsites, hiked a bit of Bright Angel and Kaibab (about 1 mile down), saw sunset at Powell Point, walked the Trail of Time showing the geology of the canyon from 50 yrs to 1,900 million years (yes, that's a billion +!), had examples of rocks from each layer to see and touch, had lunch overlooking the canyon in El Tovar lounge, and ended with Sunrise Easter Service at Mather Point with the sunrising behind the cross! A perfect way to end a perfect stay. Our friends from church, Doug and Judy were there and we ended our days with them and meet them on the trails. Our friends from skiing, Chris, Rich, and Hage were there ... read more