Alan on October 18th, 2011

Walk through the gate into the gardens of La Posada, continue up the walkway to the open doors welcoming every traveler, guest and curiosity seeker into this grand Spanish hacienda – the last great railroad hotel built by the Fred Harvey Company. Once you walk through the doors of La Posada you will never believe […]

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Alan on October 18th, 2011

While standing on a  corner in Winslow Arizona and seeing a girl in a flat bed Ford checking you out may be such a fine sight to see, standing under the dark desert sky about 5 miles south of Winslow on a moonless night is several notches up from fine, it is spectacular. Getting away […]

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Alan on October 13th, 2011

If you are like Jean and I, almost everywhere we vacation we ask ourselves, ‘Could we live here?’ So far on this trip out in the Southwest no location has struck us as a, this is it place. While Marble Canyon has its solitude and Flagstaff has its great location and beautiful scenery, we hadn’t […]

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Alan on October 13th, 2011

When one thinks of Colorado River rafting, images of whitewater rapids, getting soaked from head to toe and sometimes getting thrown from your raft come to mind. However, that wasn’t our experience when rafting down the Colorado in Glen Canyon. Colorado River Discovery offers what they call half day river floats that are calm water […]

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Alan on October 11th, 2011

After spending the first several days of our southwest vacation in colorful Colorado, the Centennial State, the next leg of our journey took us to a more remote location in Arizona called Marble Canyon. Marble Canyon feels like it is out in the middle of nowhere and from the fellow travelers we ran into, that […]

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