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.
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 [...]
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 [...]