Tonight I won’t be writing much because there is a small mountain of crass commercialism that needs wrapping mere feet from where I sit, so consider this the blogospheric version of “Let’s go to the video tape.” Only I’ll use pictures, because I’m generally ten years behind the curve where technology is involved.

Earlier I may have mentioned the two trips we took to Arizona this year. Why would anybody go to the same place twice in the same year?, you ask. Well, Nancy was out there on business, and it made sense for me to fly out and join her when she finished the jobs. So in April we plotted our own triangular course that took us from Phoenix/Scottsdale to Kingman, eastward to the Petrified Forest, and back down to Phoenix. Along the way, we detoured up to the Hoover Dam, stayed overnight in Kingman, stopped for a look in the town of Ashfork, strolled through a volcanic crater, examined some ancient Kayenta Anasazi ruins, explored what’s left of the ghost town of Two Guns, walked on the rim of Meteor Crater, stood on a corner in Winslow, spent a night in a wigwam in Holbrook, hoofed it in the Petrified Forest, drove through the Blue Mesa badlands, absorbed the colors of the Painted Desert, and read some of the 650 various images that make up the petroglyphs carved into Newspaper Rock.

Whew. If I had known we were doing so much out there, I’d have been more tired. But, I didn’t know. We just kept driving and looking for things to do, and it worked out very well. I don’t remember having any sugar problems, but I do remember testing in some very strange places, like an abandoned mountain lion pen in Two Guns, and of course in that tee pee.

So here are a few images from this particular trip.

Hoover Dam

Ancient Ruins

Two Guns attraction from years gone by.

The rim of Meteor Crater

It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford . . .

Wigwam Motel, Holbrook.

Petrified Forest

Ancient Petroglyphs at "Newspaper Rock"