Yes that's right, the project got changed. That wasn't the only surprise when the van arrived on Monday morning. Apparently it was too cold to camp out and so we discovered we would be heading back to Flagstaff every night, which meant i had seen the last of camping in America. Day one: Someone at Cedar house slept in and so we didn't leave Flagstaff until 8, arriving at the Wupatki maintenance yard around 9 to be told there was no work there for us and that we would be working back at Sunset Crater. We got there and after some [View Full Entry]

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So after rushing back from Phoenix it was time for another project. Back to Wupatki for 3 days of pueblo stabilisation, supposedly. Day one and after the short trip we found out the park guys didnt know we were coming and so we had no work for the short project. What followed was 3 days of visiting the sites around Wupatki and sunset crater. This was interesting, don't get me wrong but i was annoyed because i had been looking forward to working to restore the pueblos. Sites on the first day included the main Wupatki ruin and a large petroglyph [View Full Entry]

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So if last project was in an oven, this one was most certainly in a freezer. Very cold in Zion national park this week, after an unseasonably warm week the week before, which is just bad luck on my part if you ask me. We had snow, icicles and water freezing at camp with lows of -5 degrees. Day one was mostly devoted to travel, although the journey significantly shorter than last time to Parashant. We arrived at about 3 pm so had plenty of time to set up camp (alongside the emerald pools crew) and then head to the visitors [View Full Entry]

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So here i am back in Flagstaff after another fun filled week at the Wupatki. Much better overall experience there this week but at the same time i'm glad i am going somewhere different next time around. Most of the crew members were the same and we had the same supervisor so not many new faces or names to get used to and i felt as though the time at camp was a lot better than last week. Day one had the usual early start: wake up at 6, have breakfast and head off to Cedar house to load up the [View Full Entry]

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After my first taste of America's National Parks (Yosemite) I was very excited to be going to another one. The trip did not start well however. It was a 12 hour bus journey from LA to Flagstaff (a town about one and a half hours out of the Southern Rim of the Grand Canyon) so i booked an overnight bus so i could save on a nights accomodation. I am starting to grow tired of long journeys on buses now, so this one seemed to drag, and it was a full bus so i was squashed in next to someone. I [View Full Entry]

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Sooo, i'm back from Wupatki and it was rather awesome. We left at about 7 am which meant waking up at half 5 only 2 days after a 10 and a half hour flight with the effects of jet lag still present. The first task of the day was driving over to Cedar house to load up the van with the weeks food supplies and tools needed for the project. After this, the journey to the national park took about an hour and everyone was still sleepy and quiet. Day one involved putting up tents in windy conditions, which turned out [View Full Entry]

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So after a 23 hour journey; leaving heacham at 7.30 am and arriving in Flagstaff at 11.30 local time, I have finally arrived at project base camp. First impressions of Arizona were that it was very HOT, still over 35 degrees by 5.30pm, cooling down to about 10 degrees by the time i got to the apartment in flagstaff. The accommodation looks OK so far, 4 to a bedroom and i am on a top bunk :/ I am sharing with an American named Sean who left this morning on a 3 week project, a German called Florian and i am [View Full Entry]

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Whoa. Since my last entry, we have driven all around the state of Colorado, visited Utah, and hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back. We originally planned all these great places to see...Yellowstone, Yosemite, etc, but between concert tickets I bought for a show in Colorado and a last minute opening for the hike down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, the time restraints eliminated a lot of options. However, it did create the chance to see a lot more of Colorado than originally planned. I'd like to start by saying how much I appreciate: A. Hiking [View Full Entry]

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Over the last two days, we've stayed the night in Albuquerque and tonight we're staying in Flagstaff. For lunch yesterday, we ate again at Bumble Bee's Baja Grill. Mom comments, "For lunch I had a naked veggie burrito. It was heavenly." I thought my burrito was a 9.5, still .5 off for being a tiny bit too spicy. But other than that, my burrito was heavenly. Last night, we ate at Garcia's Family Restaurant in Albuquerque. I ate a burrito with pico de gallo, beans, rice, and cheese. It was good, except that I couldn't use my hands because it wasn't [View Full Entry]

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I've been to Flagstaff several times. All the times it's been great. The first time I went, I ate at the Beaver Street Brewery. It was amazing. I wasn't old enough to have the microbrew, but I heard it was good. The pizza was phenomenal. The wait was a little long, but the people who ate there were friendly, so you always have someone to talk to. The second time I went, I ate at Sizzlers. It is like a buffet I guess you could say. A whole group of us went, so the wait was long, but the food was [View Full Entry]

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