Arizona and Nevada caverns, Rte 66 and area

Sunset over the Bullhead / Laughlin area. Note the reflection of the Colorado River in the lower left of the photo.
Historic Route 66 was an interesting road to travel-narrow but a lot of neat things to see.
an old gas station along Rte 66 it is set up inside as it would have been in the 60's
Warren and Mari are thinking of getting a new vehicle to tow behind their coach-not sure it should be this one, though they do look like proud owners.
Warren and Mari at the top of the stairs with a three toed sloth in the rear in the caverns tour. it is 65 degrees year round and very pleasant in the cave.

crystals in the cave-while pretty if water hits them they will dissolve so they are of no value except where they lay.due to the dry air in the cave and lack of any moisture this bobcat became mummified when it fell into the cave from the original opening in approx 1850

our guide said these bones are from the last tour guides-he said they were not very good. our guide was very knowledgeable so I guess he took it to heart and studied the info for the tour.
part of the caverns tour-looking back through the cave.

This is some neat painted rocks off the road in Chloride-the road is not the best and the last 10th of a mile was hiked as it was to rough for the truck. To many large rocks sticking out of the roadbed.



the oldest and longest running post office in AZ the 1860 historic mining town

The town of Chloride AZ is old and interesting-following are some photos of yard art seen in various yards. Almost everyone had some stuff like this.


an old mine in the mountains outside Oatman AZ-it was quite deep.
Warren and Friend in Oatman.
an old building that was part of the old mine.
an old station along the way on Rte 66 near Oatman
Oatman has a burro population that sort of controls the town. If they are in the road you have to wait for them. You can feed them and of coarse they follow you if you do feed them.

Sunset over the Bullhead mountain area.
need to let the dogs out-build your own camper dog door and ramp-this was for a couple of small poodles.
interesting bike -this is for you Lee-I think you need to build your own & here is the example. What do you think?

Boulder Dam area and new bridge-road way photos- the river
arch for the new bridge and the roadway coming in from either side in process of being built-seen from the old bridge area
across the mountain area near boulder-very pretty area
close up of the bridge arch- you can see the overhead lift and the buckets that they transport equipment and people to the job (look to the left of the arch)
Sunrise over Bullhead city and the Colorado River

North Rim, Zion & drive around area of Utah

This heard of elk were in the distance as we left Bryce National Park.
When we saw these wild turkeys we knew it was time to head for home and Thanksgiving. I am sure these would have been to tough to eat so we'll wait till we get home for one.
This was a neat looking tree in Zion on one of the walks we took. It is amazing what they do to adapt and grow in inhospitable ground.
We ran across iced over creeks and snow along the way--another telling sign it is time to head for CA for the winter.
Snow in the Cedar Breaks Park--you know it is time to head for home. No snow chains for the truck let alone the coach.

Warren's car had such a shine to it that it allowed for a mirror imagine quite by accident.
the formations are called hoodoos. Meaning a rock left standing after the forces of erosion have worked on them.
Zion creek at evening time.
There were Aspens everywhere and made for neat photos of color and sky through them.
This is one of the hanging gardens in Zion. They are caused from all the water that trickles through the porous rock from rain and snow.

one of the formations known as the theater, it had a pond below with little fish in it.
a look across the valley
Friends from Ca joined us in Zion. This is one of the walks we went on in the park. Warren & Mari summer in Montana, we have visited them there so the stopped in on their way back home for the winter.
this is one of the interesting rock formations in Zion

a walk through one of the Zion canyon areas. It was really beautiful.
We ran into some friends on the bus-people we met on our Alaska cruise a couple of years ago.
this is a natural bridge that was discovered in the late 1800's by one of th guys that used to live in Zion before it was a park.
This is the 3 patriarchs formation.
This little thief went in the ladies backpack and stole one of her energy bars.

a rather long snake found under our coach in the Kanarraville campground.
the sign speaks for itself.
this old Page house was built in 1898 and used as a family home, lodging for the nearby iron workers and travelers now it is a historic site. This was a major shipping and traveling route in southern Utah.
This house had a matching bird house in the tree-right down to the porch with the 3 posts.
some rather large pumpkins on the porch across from our campground.

A view out one of the gallery windows of the mile long bridge in Zion.
Interesting things can be seen on drives. This house has a slide from the second floor patio as a means of getting to he ground. There were no visible stairs.
A couple of photos of sunset in the Kolob area of Zion National Park.

Zion overlook- you can see the formations in the distance that the sign is referring to.

The changing of colors on a volcanic rock bed-rather neat contrast.
More of the changing of colors for fall.
This was a rather interesting camper someone built. It was setting in a campground in a small town we passed through on one of our drives.
A deer family-appears to be triplets with the mother deer.
I caught this deer looking up as I was on a couple of rocks above it trying to capture him on film.

We headed to the North rim of the Grand Canyon through Zion and this is part of the switchback roads we had to drive.

This is a look back at pricing when the lodge first opened in 1937-great prices by today's rates.
Here we are at the end of a Angles walk about 1/4 mile Bil felt it was more like a hundred miles. Great walk but rather hilly to be out over the rim.
This is part of the walk back from the rim walk.
The view from the end or Angels walk- it was great.