Blogs from Phoenix, Arizona, United States, North America - page 4

Distance driven today: 195 miles / 314 km Cumulative distance driven: 3,890 miles / 6,260 km Today’s trip: Flagstaff, Arizona, to Phoenix Arizona Schools with donated Kindle e-readers visited: 1 Motorcycle service stops: 1 The morning was spent with Tom Drumm, principal of the Flagstaff Junior Academy charter school. Just like the other schools I have stopped at along this trip, the principal and I spent a few hours walking through the technical and educational implementation of the Kindle e-readers we have donated to the school. Tom also brought one of the school IT admins into the conversation, which was really great. As always, there was some confusion around how user accounts and devices are actually related, and how to best manage the relationship between them. It took me a while to explain the concept of ... read more

Greetings from "the road" - a road we've longed to journey down again! We spent the past week visiting my family in Phoenix, Arizona, but since we drove there from Colorado (about 700 miles or 1100 km) we got to see some pretty spectacular scenery along the way. It's one of those roads less traveled - even for many Americans - down through Four Corners and across the vast desert expanse of northern Arizona. We began our trip with a drive west and south through Colorado. I would love to write an enthralling description of the San Juan mountains and the majesty of Ouray, Silverton, and Durango, but alas, our drive consisted of six hours of rain and snow. It's sort of a tragedy, as this part of Colorado is considered by many to be the ... read more

Day 7 involved catching the 1:00am red eye back to Dallas. We were just ready to get home after such a long drive!... read more

Day 2 started off with a trip to Jack in the box to try a fajita pita for the first time. It was great! From there we started our drive up I-17 N to I-40 E to go to Meteor Crater at Winslow, AZ. When we arrived we first went to the store to purchase a t-shirt that was on sale. After that we took a trip out to the crater to get pics and videos. The crater was huge! It was worth the price to get in and see it. It is something everyone should see once in their lifetime. After the crater, we headed to our hotel, the Holiday Inn Express Grand Canyon. It was a very nice hotel but it was very crowded. We needed to get some shut eye so we could ... read more

WHOOOHOOO!! Finally here in Phoenix Arizona. Left Melbourne an hour late on the 20.1.2015, some joker booked in and something went pear shaped and we waited an hour on the aircraft whilst his luggage was removed, surname MAHOOD!!!! Made good time 14hr flight only 13 something and got into LAX 7.45a.m. instead of 7.15a.m. 20.1.15, out of airport by 8.45a.m. then onto a bus to car hire Alamo (LAX huge so No all car hire places off site) got into our Volvo and started it but could not find keys, neither could the attendant, so unload car and get another so now we have our Criesler 300 jumped in and left LAX area at around 9.30a.m. headed down to Route 10, stopping off at the Premium Outlets at Cabazon (near Palm Springs) then lunch in Ruby's ... read more