Recently, I came across this photo while scrolling through an old album on my computer. It was taken on the Angel’s Landing trail at Zion National Park in 2003, using the timer on my camera, and it reveals a narrative of my life at that time. I spent the winter and spring of 2003 in [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Southwest’
Spirals, movement, transition
Posted in travel, tagged Southwest, symbol, travel on April 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Beatty and Rhyolite, Nevada
Posted in travel, tagged Southwest, travel on October 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a return to the log of our travels in March of 2009. Toward the end of our trip, we dropped into Beatty, Nevada, to visit some artist friends of ours. Land of little rain, home to crazy miners, and gateway to Death Valley NP, the area is the last place you expect to see [...]
Jerome, Arizona
Posted in travel, tagged Southwest, travel on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jerome is one of those precariously perched mining towns that should have slid off the mountain and crumbled to dust many years ago. Instead, it is now a thriving tourist town filled with art galleries and restaurants. We ate lunch at The Asylum, located in the huge historic hotel that, as its name suggests, once [...]
Verde River hot spring
Posted in travel, tagged Southwest, travel on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We brought with us Hot Springs and Hot Pools of the Southwest by Marjori Gersh Young (I wouldn’t let Bo bring any of her hot springs books about other regions of the country), and we planned to get to at least one in the course of the trip. Hot springs don’t tend to be within [...]
Canyons
Posted in travel, tagged Southwest, travel on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The southwest is canyon country, and on this trip we saw our share of them. One of the valuable aspects of air travel is that we were able to get a “big picture” view of the landscape. Obviously, this is not the same as the intimate knowledge one gains by hiking inside the canyons– but [...]
