Oct 30-Nov 1 Holbrook AZ

We moved to the KOA in Holbrook which was a fairly nondescript campground except for sunrise and sunset.

From there we toured the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest on a very scenic 79 mile loop.

We stopped various times to view both petroglyphs and petrified logs.

Our last excursion was to the Navajo County Courthouse Museum which houses a very different portable jail—pretty grim, but with some impressive artwork.

Oops, just realized that this entire blog entry doesn't have a single picture of Ray or me. Now it does!

Oct 28-Oct 30 Winslow AZ

We stayed at Meteor Crater RV Park (on the outskirts of Winslow)  for two nights.

That was just enough time to visit the Meteor Crater 6 miles away,

view lizards, stinkbugs, and ruins at Homolovi Ruins State Park,

and to tour downtown Winslow. I snapped this picture of Ray on Rte 66. He “was standin on the corner” as the Eagles’ song says. (I thought that would make a great location challenge, but Ray disagreed.)

After the corner we toured the Old Trails Museum

then ate lunch at the Posada, a high class hotel which some very neat artwork.  Someday I'd like to return as an overnight guest.

Oct 24-28 Grand Canyon National Park, AZ

After leaving Lake Mead our next stop was the Trailer Village near the South entrance of the Grand Canyon National Park.

The first day we took a 26 mile drive on Desert View Drive, stopping at various lookouts and touring the Watchtower.

The following days offered more views from the canyon rim and also a peak at the local bird population.  (Can you find two birds?)

As for other wildlife, we enjoyed watching an elk bull by the side of the road and multiple mule deer bucks at our campground.

The one pictured below got his antlers entangled in our TV cable connection!  (Our neighbors were eye witnesses.)



Oct 16-24 Lake Mead National Recreation Area, NV

From Oct 1st to the 16th, the RV was in storage while we flew home to do errands and visit family. Ray visited his Dad, I visited my sister and we both visited Brian and Holly and their cats, Bud Bud and Gregory, not to mention a few pigs at Flying Pan Park.

We flew back to Vegas on the 16th and moved to Lake Mead RV Village near Boulder City. We camped as near to the water as we could and enjoyed the view.

Jay and Sheana joined us on the 19th and we kept busy by visiting the bridge over Hoover Dam. 

We also fed the fish at the nearby marina.

The next day we went kayaking on the Colorado River at Willow Beach (another part of the Lake Mead NRA).

We saw Bighorn Sheep and a well camouflaged heron, not to mention some beautiful scenery.

Jay’s friends Brooks and Staub (and their dogs), joined us for part of the weekend, setting up camp with Jay and Sheana in the no hookups campground adjacent to ours and visiting us to play trivial pursuit and catch phrase. We had a great time.  It was hard to say goodbye.