Chronicling the adventures of the NH Nomads
After our time hiking to Devil’s Bridge, we took 89A north out of Sedona to get to our accommodations in Flagstaff. We took this route last year on our family spring break on our way back north from Jerome, but ran out of daylight and could not even remotely appreciate the scenery that we were driving through.
We had a dozen hikes lined up as options for the day that we passed through Sedona. Once we saw that most of this hike could be done with a 4WD vehicle, we thought it would be a fun place to see what the our rented Jeep could do!
On account of all of the traveling we’ve been doing over the last few years, we have racked up quite a bit of rewards points for rental cars and hotels. We decided to make arrangements for the kids for the week, and redeemed all of those points on an anniversary trip this year.
Continue reading “Our Anniversary Adventure in Arizona”The National Parks Passport Book creates this insatiable urge to see what sort of NPS sites are nearby whenever and wherever we travel, so that we can get that stamp! For Spring break we traveled to visit family in Atlanta and Nashville. We weren’t able to go out of the way at all in Atlanta to get any stamps. In Nashville, we did find ourselves with an extra day, so we took a short drive to Murfreesboro to visit an NPS site that we would have probably not known about if it were not for the Passport Book.
Prior to planning this trip, none of us had even heard of Great Basin National Park. It seems as though we were not the only ones, this is one of the least visited US National Parks in the system. Once we saw that we could have the opportunity to take a cave tour, hike on a glacier, and walk among some 2000-year-old Bristlecone Pine trees, we had to put it on our agenda!
Today we moved from Williams, Arizona to the Bryce Canyon area in Utah.
Continue reading “From Flagstaff to Bryce Canyon”Today is set aside for one thing and one thing only. We will take in as much of the Grand Canyon as we can between sunrise and sunset!
Continue reading “Grand Canyon”Today brought us to cliff dwellings, more remains of ancient communities, and a volcanic ash field.
Continue reading “Walnut Canyon, Wupatki, Sunset Crater”Today we visited the Sedona area, focusing our trajectory for the day on the area south of Flagstaff.
Continue reading “Montezuma’s Castle and Well, Sedona Area”Today’s travels brought us from Boulder City, Nevada to Williams, Arizona.
We took our time leaving Boulder City, watched trains in California, walked over London Bridge, and met friends in Kingman.
Continue reading “Boulder City, Mojave Desert, and Lake Havasu”