Well, out trip into Arizona’s famous sandstone formation ‘The Wave’ is now safely in the past. We have made it out to Arizona, back into the Coyote Buttes wilderness and eventually back to Pennsylvania safe and sound.
Here are my thoughts on hiking The Wave.
We went with Antelope Canyon Tours and took their photographer’s package. If you are considering a visit to Antelope Canyon (in Page, AZ) then I heartily encourage you to do the same. Our guide, Rosie, was great!
On our recent trip to the American Southwest I lost data from a memory card. After importing a card into Aperture, I thoughtlessly erased the card in my camera before noticing Aperture gave an alert that it didn’t successfully import all of the images.
Oops.
The photos were gone as far as Finder could tell, [...]
We tend to eat when we’re on the road. Not more than usual (often the opposite) but we do still need to eat. Usually we can manage to stay in a hotel/motel that offers a complimentary continental breakfast (although the super-excellent Hampton Inn chain does complimentary hot breakfast!) but that leaves 2 meals.
When I [...]
A little geography lesson for today courtesy of several Wikipedia pages and Gina:
Mesas and buttes are pretty much just different names for very similar things. Both have steep sides and flat tops. Geographers tend to differentiate between the two based on a ratio of top size to height: “a mesa has a top that is [...]
Look! We made it!
Originally uploaded by brettgross
What a hike!
3.5 miles each way through sand dunes and across slickrock in 100+ degree heat. The return trip had no shade and was a very dehydrating experience.
Worth it, though.
More pictures on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brettgross/sets/72157605685308745/
Grand Canyon
Originally uploaded by brettgross
Some may call it a ‘Grand Canyon’ but no matter how you look at it, it is a very big hole.
We were supposed to spend the night in Albuquerque and roll on the following day. After seeing how close Petroglyph National Monument was we decided to get some stamps and see some rock art.
Good idea.
Great place to see some very cool petroglyphs (given the name, you would hope so!), but beware of the [...]
The trip from Pennsylvania to Arizona took us many, many, many hours and included 3 storms. Why can’t we get good weather on the road?
Oklahoma was a new state for us, and we aren’t in any hurry to go back. Everything was going so well until we ended on the toll road that bypasses Oklahoma [...]
I just can’t keep that macro lens off of my camera for long. Just last weekend we were clearing up some brush outside of our yard when Gina found some really interesting mushrooms. It was a rare moment for me as I could quickly grab the tripod and shoot some shots with a much smaller [...]