Recently, my wife, Jayne, and I and our family visited the city of Paris. Although this was not my first time, my family had never been there before and were hardly waiting to experience the culture and the history. This trip was a departure from our other trips in that all of our site exploration […]

The first of our last two hikes in Arizona was to Chicken Point . Supposedly, the name is due to the Pink Jeep tour operators playing “chicken” with the cliffs edge! After hiking out to Chicken Point, we took a side trail to Submarine Rock . This location is also a favorite among mountain bikers . If you’d like […]

With our latest return to Sedona, Jayne and I also wanted to revisit the Grand Canyon . As luck would have it, of course, the day we decided to go turned out to be rainy, cold, and overcast. In fact, as we got closer to the South Gate, the temperature continued to drop, and the rain […]

Photographing Cathedral Rock  from Red Rock Crossing  is said to be one of the most photographed spots in Arizona. That said, it is still a great place from which to exercise your photographic eye. Each time Jayne and I visit Sedona, we also hike the Red Rock Crossing trail . This is very short and easy, […]

Another stop Jayne and I made was to revisit an artsy town called Jerome . However, before we drove to Jerome, we also revisited Montezuma Castle National Monument . This is an ancestral pueblo cliff dwelling near Camp Verde that was built some time after 1100 AD. It is not really a castle but rather more like […]