The Beautiful Verde Valley

Taite and Jax playing with the beautiful red rocks of Sedona in the background

This area has to be one of our absolute favorites.  The views are fantastic, the hiking spectacular and the proximity to so many fabulous places is perfect (Jerome, Cottonwood, Prescott, Flagstaff, Sedona and Phoenix).  Each time we come to this area we stay a little longer.  The first few years was 3 weeks, last year was 5 weeks, this year is 8 weeks and next year will be 3 months!  It feels like our home away from home.

Since the day we hit the road in our RV we've been toting around my cross-country skis in hopes they would meet the snow one day.  That day finally happened.  Flagstaff received almost 2 feet of snow just before our arrival so I high tailed it up there and got in 2 spectacular days of skiing and 20 miles on the trails!  Moxie was able to join me on a trail and loved every minute of rolling and frolicking in the snow.  She's a natural.

Moxie is ready to go!  Pulling me down the trail.

Funny we found this Dune Jeep with interesting modifications.  I don't want to be somewhere if there's that much snow!

My nephews spring break hit when we arrived in the area so they rented a beautiful house in Cottonwood and we got to spend lots of time with them and several of their friends that week.

hiking with the boys

The Cowboy Dinner

The Cowboy Dinner

the gang on the Pink Jeep Tour

Note the man above their heads just jumped from the top of the falls!  What a photo bomb!

Til next time...Happy Trails!

Apache Junction, AZ

From Palm Springs, CA back to AZ for a few weeks in Apache Junction (east of Phoenix).  It was a quick 2 weeks with time spent catching up with family and friends.  For some reason I don't have many pictures from these 2 weeks but here are some desert hiking favorites and my little niece.

We had dinner with my sister, nephew, his girlfriend and their little girl, Rylee.  

We are now in one of our favorite places between Camp Verde and Cottonwood, AZ (just 30 minutes south of Sedona).  We are here for 6 weeks so we'll have lots of time to enjoy this beautiful area!

Til next time...Happy Trails!

Palm Springs, CA

It's been years since we were in Palm Springs so we thought it was time to stop in for a few weeks and re-explore the area.  We met up with some friends we had not seen in years, took in some hikes in Joshua Tree National Park and Borrego Springs and caught up with my brother, Danny, who lives in Carlsbad.

One of my most and least favorite things about our Palm Springs campground is all of the beautiful Palm trees.  They are wonderful to look at but not fun to navigate around when pulling the RV in and out of your site!

A Roadrunner checking out our campsite.  Moxie was not thrilled with his intrusion of her space!

lots of artichoke fields in this area

Enjoying the great outdoors:

Hiking on the PCT (Pacific Crest Trail)

Jeeping and hiking in Joshua Tree National Park

Borrego Springs - The Slot and badlands

Great day with my brothers, Danny and Michael, at the Palm Desert Zoo.

We took the tram up the mountain in hopes of finding some skiing for me.  No luck due to icy conditions so we hiked my skis around and enjoyed the beautiful views!

Til next time...Happy Trails.