Tag: travel
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Painted Rock Petroglyphs
This will be a short post. On the way back from Casa Grande we made a short detour to a places called Painted Rock Petroglyphs, in the Painted Rock mountains. The glyphs are from a wide age range, some ancient, some from a few hundred years ago and some from the 19th century. They are on…
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Well, I SAID I wanted to see the Sonoran Desert.
So here’s the thing. I’ve been trying to go to as many national parks (or historic sites, as the case may be) this year as possible. I’m excited about my passport stampbook (as I’ve previously posted) and especially since we now live in the half of the country with all of the huge natural areas,…
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Casa Grande Ruins: an unexpected very neat thing
In my quest to see national parks (and collect passport stamps from them!), I’ve made it a habit to check for any that are an easy drive from a place I might already be. In this case, J and I were in Casa Grande, Arizona, for the renaissance festival, and we kept seeing signs that…
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Driving to Arizona: No map? No problem! Unless you get detoured onto a historic highway…
In the age of the GPS, I haven’t bothered in quite a while to buy a roadmap. I haven’t needed one in a long time, and even when I’ve lost GPS signal I have been either close enough to home not to need it, or in a relatively small place where it is difficult to…
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Arizona Renaissance Festival Weekend, aka roadtrip through desert
Two weekends ago, J and I took a roadtrip to Arizona to go to the renaissance festival that’s just outside of Phoenix. This one is the sister festival to the Carolina one (owned by the same company) and since J hasn’t been in town for one in a while, we decided to do the six…
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Fog at Cape Hatteras: a weekend at the North Carolina Outer Banks
I moved to North Carolina when I was fourteen. I have spent countless weekends in the North Carolina mountains (and up into Virginia and over into Tennessee), be it for day trips or camping weekends or summer vacations, but until I was in my twenties, I had never been to the Outer Banks. In fact,…
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New photos and my Passport to the National Parks
While on my wild horse chasing weekend, I discovered something that’s been around almost as long as I have– the National Park system’s Passport. I’m a National Parks member, so I get into all the parks for free, and I went to a TON of national parks as a kid, but somehow I missed the…
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Horror Hotel VINDICATION
So, the AWESOME HOTEL where E and I wound up not staying now has put pending charges on my account that amount to FOUR NIGHTS worth of stays… when we didn’t even stay ONCE. I understand that they charged me for ONE night, since I didn’t cancel until 8pm (because I didn’t want to get…
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Horror hotel update
So, I decided I wanted some photos for my last blog post (which you can see here). It wasn’t all that far out of the way from dinner tonight, so E and I stopped by, thinking we could just pull into the parking lot again, like last night. I slowed down to make the turn……
Joanna Volavka 