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

Our neighboring state gets unwanted attention for their views on Hispanics, immigration, and baseball. But Arizona remains one of my favorite states, both for its natural beauty, Spring Training baseball, fabulous golf courses, Tex-Mex food, and its overall southwestern vibe. I just try to forget the politics, and enjoy the best of the southwest. Did you know that it takes over a hundred years to grow an arm of a Saguaro cactus in areas of low precipitation? The age of the Saguaro is determined by its height. There is more than a billion years of rock exposed at the Grand Canyon. Our country's first margarita came courtesy of Arizona, where first barrel of tequila came out in 1936 form Nogales. Likewise, the chimichanga was invented here. Arizona has 13 species of rattlesnakes. Taste like chicken if ... read more

blog 10-19-17 Lake Powell This morning was a lazy one and much needed. I finished the blog from yesterday and Ginnie took it easy with a leisurely breakfast then a walk for the dogs. It was late til I was done but Watson and I got a good walk in. Watson has been limping on his right front leg since yesterday and it seems worse today so I'll keep him confined for a day or 2 and see if that helps. No thorn in the paw and no heat from his muscles or joints so I hope it's nothing serious. We booked a boat tour on Lake Powell for 1:15 but we had to be there by 12:45 and it took 20 min to get there so we decided to leave at 12:15 which gave us ... read more

Our last day in the Southwest started out with a morning tour of Antelope Canyon before our drive back to Vegas for our flight home. Antelope Canyon, as I expected, is a very touristy place. You pay a rather large fee for what you get, and then get filed through the Canyon Disneyland style. With several companies filing thousands of people through a day, of course it's a short but sweet trip. The beauty of Antelope Canyon is you can generally point your camera in any direction, take a photo, and BAM! you're an artist. The natural waves and colors of the rock make it that easy. Because it's on reservation territory, you HAVE to have a guide take you there. We went with Chief Tsosie. When we got there, we asked a few basic questions- ... read more

Vom Antelope Canyon sieht man überall Bilder, aber in Wirklichkeit ist er noch viel spektakulärer. Der Antelope Canyon ist der meistbesuchte Slot Canyon in drn USA, er befindet sich in der Nähe von Page in Arizona. Er wurde vom Antelope Creek gebildet, einem etwa 30 km langen und nur selten nach Sturzregen im Ursprungsgebiet in den Mormon Ridges wasserführenden Bach. Der Bach und seine Canyons verlaufen in etwa parallel zu den Rocky Mountains von Südsüdost nach Nordnordwest in einer auf dem Colorado Plateau häufigen Kluftrichtung. In den unteren Canyon steigt man mit Hilfe Bon Metalleitern hinab und folgt dann dem Canyon aufwärts bis man wieder oben ist. Die seltenen Regen bringen so viel Wasser, dass der Canyon zu einer Todesfälle wird. Seit 12 Touristen dort ertrunken sind, gibt es ein Frühwarnsystem, so dass solche Todesfälle ausgeschlossen ... read more

So this morning started out at a nice clean crisp 3:15 am as we wanted to get to grand canyon for sunrise. Has to be so early because arizonia is stuborn and does not do daylight savings go time so sunrise is 4:18. Now Grand Canyon is an amazing place that everyone should go see. It was a bit disappointing because clouds and The haze was pretty bad. Being out tight As always schedule did not have a lot of time to wait for it to burn off. Still great and wonderful thing. Next however I was very pleasantly surprised by antelope Canyon. We hiked the lower Canyon. It was brutally hot but well worth it. Now given the option I would much rather do it in the spring or fall. However in my opinion this ... read more