Grand Canyon National Park (South Rim) 2001

After the Petrified Forest, we travelled to Flagstaff to purchase groceries and last minute camping supplies. Then we headed north to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. We stayed for three nights at Mather campground and took in the sights of the canyon. Sadly, photographs do not do this incredible land formation any justice…

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Petrified Forest National Park 2001

The Petrified Forest NP contains a large number of petrified logs and also looks out on some great vistas over the painted desert. We arrived at the park in the early morning just as it was opening. The oblique slant of the sun provided some very colourful shots of the petrified wood.  

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Shenandoah National Park 1995

After the disappointing weather at the Great Smokey National Park, we headed off to Shenandoah, hoping to take in the fall colours. The weather had turned very cold (sub-zero) and finding a hotel was difficult as there were many folks who had the same idea (both the fall colours and stay out of the cold)!…

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Great Smokey Mountains National Park 1995

We arrived at the Cosby campsite that same day and the weather there was good. We figured on staying for a relaxing three days. However, the next day broke with heavy rain — sigh. We elected to head into Pigeon Forge and shop the day away as there are a (horrible) number of factory outlets…

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Mammoth Cave National Park 1995

Although not originally in our plans for this trip, we had some time left over in our schedule — largely as a result of weather snowing, raining, blowing, or freezing us out of other locations, so we decided to head east and visit Mammoth Cave, the Great Smokey Mountains and Shenandoah. We had been to…

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Big Bend National Park 1995

Driving through west Texas is an experience. There are not too many folks so you pass cars only occasionally on the roads. Most everybody waves a friendly hello and you are soon doing it too. After gassing up the truck at Alpine and picking up some scrub oak firewood we headed in to Big Bend…

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Guadalupe National Park 1995

We did not have the opportunity to stay at Guadalupe, but we did at least visit the Welcome Centre and have a small look at the park before we had to continue onward to reach Big Bend by the end of the day. The park is set in the same rock formation that contains the…

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Carlsbad Caverns National Park 1995

Carlsbad Cavern is a wet cave. That is, the features that you will find in the cave are created by water dripping from the roof of the cave onto the floor. The cavern itself is very large and was created by the dissolution of limestone at a period when the rock was underwater. In fact,…

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White Sands, Stallion Missile Range 1995

From Gallup, we headed to Soccoro to visit with some friends who are stationed at NRAO and the VLA. As it happened we just arrived at exactly the right moment to visit the Trinity test site which was open to the public on that one day. For those of you not history conscious, this is…

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