Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

Here are a few pics from our time at the Grand Canyon: Sunset at Desert View Sunrise at Mather Point Dave and Meredith at Mather Point (It’s COLD at Sunrise!) That wraps it up for the Grand Canyon.  I’m feeling much better and we are off to Lake Powell.  Our itinerary page has been updated […]

While Meredith languished in the motel room (writhing in agony from what I’m told), I headed over to the corral behind the Bright Angel Lodge to meet up for my mule ride. There are two types of mule rides into the Grand Canyon that one can sign up for. One is an overnighter where you […]

Dave’s on a mule ride in the Grand Canyon today.  I was supposed to be with him, but I had a nasty reaction to all the dust over the last couple days, and now I am pretty sick. Turns out we’ll be staying at the Best Western for our whole stay in the Grand Canyon […]

We decided to stay in a hotel for 1 night so we can take monster-long showers. Ahhh! Here is the view from the window at the Best Western near the Grand Canyon’s South Rim: What is that thing in the distance?  It’s a giant chicken standing in front of an American flag: Don’t ask me, […]

Here is the view from our tent at the campground in Monument Valley, UT: Of course, if you read the last post, you’ll know that we didn’t actually sleep in the tent that night, so the view would have been the same background with a tent that looked as if it would blow away any […]

We stayed overnight at Monument Valley.  There’s only one place to stay right now – it’s like a small town, with a lodge, a restaurant, a gas station, a grocery and general store, and a campground. It was quite breezy and dusty while we were touring Monument Valley, and we got to our camp site […]

After leaving Moab, we spent the day driving through beautiful scenery to Monument Valley. Monument Valley is one of those places that everyone has seen pictures of even if they didn’t know what it was called. The scenery is iconic Southwest America with vast plains dotted with lone rock buttes and mesas. Many commercials, TV […]

This is the view from the window at the campground we stayed in near Moab, Utah for one night: – Meredith

Our original plan when we left Boulder, CO was to make it to Monument Valley in one long day’s drive. We left a little late though and ran some errands along the way so, in the end, we decided to spend the night in Moab, UT. We set up camp in a nice spot, had […]

When we were in Boulder, our friend Paul told us about the mountain pine beetle that is destroying large lodgepole pine trees throughout Colorado.  The beetles have done most of their work on the west side of the continental divide, but recently, they have crossed over to the eastern side as well.  As we drove […]