Residents of the Phoenix area love to decorate for Christmas. Beginning at Thanksgiving, the lights and lawn decorations begin to appear. Local newspapers keep track of and post information on the more significant displays. Readers use this information to locate and visit the colourful displays throughout the area. In past years, we’ve enjoyed sightseeing in…
Category: Arizona
Jerome, AZ
Last week our travels took us back to a favourite place we’ve visited several times before. Jerome promotes itself as “America’s Most Vertical City” and “Largest Ghost Town in America”. Located high on top of Cleopatra Hill (5,200 feet) between Prescott and Flagstaff is the historic copper mining town of Jerome, Arizona. Once known as the wickedest…
Grand Canyon
This week we hosted two visitors, Rolande’s niece, Marie-Josee and a friend, Marie-Claire. As first time visitors to Arizona, they were of course interested in seeing the Grand Canyon. On Tuesday, we traveled north and after stops at Jerome and Sedona we arrived at our destination, Tusayan just outside the park gates. The next morning,…
Monument Valley
Monument Valley provides perhaps the most enduring and definitive images of the American West. The isolated red mesas and buttes surrounded by empty, sandy desert have been filmed and photographed countless times over the years for movies, adverts and holiday brochures. Because of this, the area may seem quite familiar, even on a first visit,…
Canyon de Chelly
The principal destination for the first day of our photo journey was the Canyon de Chelly National Monument, located in northeastern Arizona not far from the New Mexico Border. This comparatively little-known canyon is not as spectacular as others in Arizona or Utah but it does have sheer sandstone walls rising up to 1,000 feet, several…