Yearly Archives: 2008

We left Chaco Canyon and drove to Sedona, Arizona the next day. On the way, we stopped at Petrified Forest National Park to see the…

Based on a friend's recommendation, we drove to the Northwest corner of New Mexico and out on a 20 mile dirt road to Chaco Canyon.…

Thank heavens that our time in New Mexico improved vastly after our first night. We drove to the square in Taos and had great coffee…

New Mexico! Only two more states to go on our trip.After leaving Gunnison, we drove down through Colorado for the rest of the day. Things…

I had too much fun staying with our friends in Paonia to remember to take many photos. We arrived the night of the second Presidential…

Yawn, just another amazing vista in Colorado! This time from McClure Pass on our way south to Paonia to visit friends.This was right after our…

We spent two nights in Steamboat Springs at the historic Hotel Bristol (another place where we got a great mud-season rate). We loved this fun…

We took Trail Ridge Road from the park over to the other side. The summit is at 11,500 feet, quite a feat for our tiny…

Our first morning in Colorado we visited Elk Fest in downtown Estes Park. This community fair was packed with tepees, pioneer crafts, live wolves, lots…

Word to the wise: Wyoming is incredibly huge and mostly full of vast fields of nothing. Outside of Yellowstone and Jackson, there appears to only…