A part of my Four Corners Vacation 2011 We pulled into the town of Bluff at dinnertime. “Town” is not really an accurate word to use when describing Bluff. When I think of a town, I expect to see a Main Street lined with brick building businesses such as a hardware store and a bank.…
Day #1 of our vacation to the “Four Corners” area Our trip to the “Four Corners” area, where the states of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado all intersect, began with a flight into Durango, Co. After collecting our bags we drove to the Strater Hotel, our home for a single night. Built in 1887, the…
All photos by Amy Pohl We’d visited the old gold mining town of Oatman, Az, had seen the Hoover Dam and had spent a day at the Grand Canyon. Doc and I and daughter Amy, son-in-law Bill and two grandsons, had one final day left of our five-day family trek to the southwest. We would spend the first half…
1000 years ago, the people of Chaco Canyon created a thriving community in what is now the New Mexico desert where weather extremes must have made life a challenge. They built multi-storied buildings of stone, the remnants of which, remain today. The road into Chaco is long. The paved highway that led us south from…
During our vacation to the Four Corners area, Doc and I spent one night in Kokopelli’s Cave Bed and Breakfast in Farmington, NM. And what a great time we had! You start by driving to the owner’s home where they hop into their own vehicle and lead you out of town and down some pretty rough, dirt…
Visiting Oatman, Az, Walnut Canyon National Monument, the Grand Canyon National Park and Lava River Cave, Flagstaff, Az With two grandsons getting bigger by the minute, I expect that at ages 12 and 8 they’ll be heading off to college in another few weeks. At least it will seem that way to me. Children grow…
