Phoenix Weekend Travelog #4
Back at the hotel - Fri, 10 May 2024, 9pm

Today we've continued the theme of "lazy river, lazy life". After a morning swim, lunch and a bit of mid-afternoon food coma we headed back out to the waterpark. We were able to grab the same lounge chairs as in the morning. ...No, we didn't leave them reserved all day; we're ( Read more... )

Phoenix Weekend Travelog #2
Arizona Grand Resort - Thu, 9 May 2024, 9pm

After arriving in Phoenix this afternoon Hawk and I checked in at the Arizona Grand Resort. We settled in our room, a comfortable if not exactly luxurious suite. ...Well, not luxurious compared to where we've stayed the past 5 days, anyway. You can s ee pics of a suite here ( Read more... )

Phoenix Getaway Travelog #12

I forgot to mention in my previous blogs about our weekend trip to Phoenix that I was surprised by how high gas prices were. They were even higher than California... at least vs. where I live ( Read more... )

Phoenix Getaway Travelog #3
At the hotel - Sat, 1 Apr 2023, 4pm

Getting to our hotel in Phoenix took longer than expected, what with minor flight delays then going shopping. We didn't get to the hotel until around 1:30. Bad news: they didn't have a room available for us yet. Good news: we wanted to use the pool first anyway, which they gladly ( Read more... )

When I filled up one of our cars this weekend I paid over $6/gallon for gas. It was $6.099... for base grade gas (87 octane) at one of the cheapest stations in town. That's the most I've ever paid for gas in the US ( Read more... )

Sedona Travelog #3
Cottonwood, AZ - Sat, 28 May 2022, 11:30amOn our way to Sedona this morning we took a detour. As we were passing through the small town of Cottonwood we saw signs for Tuzigoot National Monument. Hawk quickly looked it up while I was driving and found it was 15 minutes off our route. As we didn't have strong feelings about what to ( Read more... )

"Where should we go for Memorial Day?" That's a question I've mulled several times recently. Hawk and I finally made a call on it Thursday night, and I booked plans Friday. We're going to Sedona, Arizona ( Read more... )

Late this week the last few states to tally votes in the presidential election got close enough to completion for several media organizations to call the results. Alaska, predictably, went in favor of Trump; he won by a margin of 10 points. Trump also held North Carolina, though by a margin of only 1.5 points. Biden took Nevada by 2.5 points and ( Read more... )

Hualapai Lands, AZ - Monday, 14 Sep 2020, 12pm

A bridge, out over the Grand Canyon?! I was excited when I first heard about its opening in 2007. Sure, it's not a bridge across the Grand Canyon- that would be a true engineering marvel- but it is a glass floored platform jutting out some 50 feet (15 m) over the rim of the canyon. It's on lands of ( Read more... )

Meadview, AZ - Mon, 14 Sep 2020, 9:45am

This morning, in the Arizona desert, we crossed 100,000 miles in our Nissan Xterra.

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Prior to this trip I thought we'd be back home before reaching 100k. A week ago I refigured my estimate and realized we'd hit the milestone on the trip, though I thought maybe it wouldn't be until tomorrow. By Friday I ( Read more... )