During our move to California, and on our recent move back to the East Coast, we drove the same route cross-country. This consisted of only five highways in the US: Interstate 81 (Virginia, Tennessee,) Interstate 40 (Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona,) Routes 85 and 17 (connections in Arizona,) and Interstate 8 (Arizona, California.) The…
Hello from Virginia!
We’re here! Well, we’ve been here for four days now, but we’ve been so busy and exhausted that I haven’t had a chance to sit down and collect my thoughts at all. I imagined I’d spend a couple of nights during our cross-country road trip/move blogging and sharing our trip, like I did when we…
Tuzigoot
Tuzigoot National Monument (or as my dad called it, “Tooti-Frooti”) is a sister monument to Montezuma. Both were inhabited by the same tribe of natives, the Sinagua. This thousand year old pueblo village sits on top of a hill in the middle of basin surrounded by mountains and mesas, fortunately with the Verde River right…
Hiking Broken Arrow Trail
Mike picked us up early on our third day in Sedona to take us hiking, something he does frequently while living there. The trail, Broken Arrow, was a fairly easy one and came in at one and a half miles each way. The end destination was a lookout on top a large rock formation called…
Off-Roading in Sedona
[Read Part 1 of our trip here.] Friends of my parents, a couple they know from my dad’s time in the Army, spent a few years living in Phoenix and loved Sedona so much that they bought a timeshare and then their own home there. Now they split their time between Virginia and Arizona, opting…