Blogs from Kingman, Arizona, United States, North America - page 2

Sorry for the delay - conversation and bourbon conspired for a missed blog post last night. Today was great for two reasons. Reason #1 was the sites we got to see, which were amazing. Reason #2 was I didn't have to drive - a first since Illinois. With the side trip down to Abilene, we've done 2,700 miles already on this trip and I've driven every one of them, so the opportunity to just sit back and look at the sites was definitely appreciated. We piled into Ron's car around 9am and headed out into the desert, driving the Oatman Highway - an incredible, twisting/turning road through the mountains and over the Sitgreaves Pass. A few miles on you pull into the town of Oatman, one of the strangest places I've ever seen. The town itself ... read more

Wir sind nun einiges weitergereist seit unserem letztem Blog Eintrag. Nachdem wir Las Vegas verlassen hatten, haben wir einen Halt gemacht in unserem ersten National Park, dem Valley of Fire (ein Tip unserer Schweizer Kollegen Stefan und Carmen). Dieser Park ist sehr klein und es war ein wundervoller Start in unserem National Park Rundgang. Die roten Felsen haben uns sehr gefallen, vor allem aber hat es den Kindern gut gefallen, da sie sich sehr gut eigneten zum klettern. Sogar Noah hat sich als ausgezeichneter Kletterer erwiesen und hat sich lautstark gemeldet, sobald wir ihn vom Felsen genommen haben. Auch eine kleine Wanderung konnten wir machen, J hat sich fest zusammengerissen und brav mitgemacht. Von wegen zusammenreissen: Das Campern in der Wildnis war eine schöne Mutprobe für Corinne. Hinter jedem Busch, unter jedem Stein, jedes Geräusch könnte ... read more

7th May 2013 Packed up the bikes and headed off to Joshua Tree National Park. Was chuffed to find we could buy an annual pass that would get us both and the bikes into all national parks, thought we would have to have one each, so saved 80 bucks. The drive through the park is spectacular, desert with astounding rock formations, not to mention the odd Joshua tree. Chose our stop and set up camp. There is no water whatsoever in the park, so we had stocked up the night before. Supper consisted of packet chicken rice and corn flour tortillas - quite revolting! Went for a lovely walk and stopped and chatted with fellow bikers, now have a contact number if we run into trouble on our travels further north. Wonderful clear starry night, but ... read more

We don't know if we have slight colds, hay fever of if our nasal passages and sinuses are just completely desiccated due to the very low humidity here?? Not to worry, apart from having sore noses and sinuses, we feel OK. Yay, this morning we had the Mustang's nose heading west right from the get go - no doubling back to catch up on what we missed yesterday today! We set off on the I-40 for a short while until we reached the exit for Bellemont and headed off on a very scenic stretch through Brannigan Park and and over Fortynine Hill, the highest point of Historic Route 66 in Arizona. We were quite excited to see some more prairie dogs along the Wagonwheel Road/Old 66 section of the drive. There were several prairie dogs scampering ... read more

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