Saturday, April 12, 2014 Today we visited several ghost towns – completely different meanings of the phrase “ghost town”, but all somehow earning that title. It’s days like this when I feel like a true South-westerner. Driving down quiet hilly highways and bumpy dirt roads, hiking several miles to find an old mining town, seeing…
This is the story of our weekend trip for the first weekend in April. (April 4-6, 2014) The main purpose for this weekend road trip was to attend the letterboxing event, “East comes West to Arizona” on Sunday the 6th, named in honor of special guests from Connecticut. We along with our friends decided to…
Vacation Day 7 – March 22, 2014 – Last day! For our last full day of vacation, we spent the day exploring the greater area of Payson, AZ, by way of letterboxing! We love this hobby because it will take us to the most scenic, historic, or interesting parts around the city. Curtis and Mitchell…
Day 6: March 21, 2014 Farmington, NM to Payson, AZ For most of our trip, we had carefully spaced out all the places we were visiting and made sure we were only driving 3-5 hours. But today, we couldn’t avoid a longer (7 hour) drive. We ended up adding on more to our time by…
Spring Break Vacation Day 5: March 20, 2014 Page, AZ – Farmington, NM We packed up and said goodbye to Page, and continued our journey East! The first leg of the journey, from Page to Monument Valley, was just a long drive through Navajo land – but I did get a few more pictures of…
Stories from Day 4 of vacation – 3/19/2014 – Hiking and touring places around Page, AZ While planning our vacation, we decided it’d be good to just take a day off from “traveling” to stay in one place and enjoy the area. This being the halfway point in the week, it seemed right to stay…