After breakfast we drove over to camper services and emptied our grey and black tanks in expectation of moving to Desert View Campground, where there are no services. One note on campgrounds in the village; if you don’t need an electric hook-up, Mather Campground is significantly nicer than Trailer Village. There are more trees and…

We rose at 4:30 am in hopes of seeing the sunrise at the Canyon. We dallied a little too long and heard the first bus as it looped by the campground entrance. As we waited for the second bus, the sky became light and we knew we had missed the sunrise. Talking with the driver,…

After collapsing at 9:00 last night, we were up with the dawn at 5:30. Plugging in the tire monitor, it started beeping. All the tires were a little low since the outside temperature was at 32, but the outside left rear tire was down to 49 instead of 61.  After breakfast and packing up camp,…

Sleeping well after our night sky viewing, we returned to the Petrified Forest as it opened for the day. A group of antelope were relaxing just inside the park. Returning to the turnouts we missed, south of Jasper Forest, the morning yielded lots of petrified wood sightings. The agate house was reconstructed from material found…

Sunrise Over the Walmart Parking Lot Sleep wasn’t something that came easily in the Walmart parking lot. Bright lights combined with traffic noise and nearby trash compactors made for a restless night and had us ready to leave by sunrise.  At 6:30 the gates were open and we were first in line at the Mercedes-Benz…

Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument was the place Beth chose to spend Mother’s Day.  The weather didn’t look good on the way, but we were lucky and the rain stayed west of us. We arrived about lunchtime and ate in the van before heading out onto the Slot Canyon trail. Hoodoos, pillars up to ninety…