Southwest trip - early to mid April 2019 (Canyon de Chelly, Monument Valley, Page, AZ)

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Antelope Canyon

This is our first camping trip since our mid-January Texas trip.  It’s not that we have been relaxing at home.  Various illnesses have occurred involving travel for each of us.  We are continuously planning our next trips for 2019 including this trip to AZ, and UT as our main destinations.  I will be posting them as I finish furiously working on the stories and images. We are continuing to work off our National Parks list with a few National Monuments included.  One of our retired friends mentioned that as they get near then end of their trips they are happy to get back home but within a few days they start planning their next trip; a never ending cycle.  We have fallen into that routine ourselves.

Great Basin National Park, July 2018 - part 1

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Bristlecone pines - Great Basin National Park

As of July 10, I was out of work... do not worry, I am out of work by choice - retired.  It has been a long time coming, 34 years.  I kept thinking about it and events over the past few years have led me to this decision.  I plan on keeping up this blog but it will change yet again.  Last year it morphed from a day hike, photography, fishing blog to a multi-day camping, hiking, photography, fishing blog with the addition of my truck camper.  The camper allowed me to go farther staying a few days at the location of choice.  Now my horizons will expand even further by going for longer periods of time.  My/our goal is to visit all of the National Parks within the United States.  There may be a few other places thrown in from time to time.