Today was a Casa Grande downtime day. We did very little today. I looked online to see if there were any birding areas around here and found two of them. One was a reservoir and the other was towards a mountain trail. Looking at the map the reservoir was also near the Casa Grande Ruins […]
It took us two days but we went from Kingman to Casa Grande, AZ. Yesterday, we took it easy going from Kingman to Parker via Catfish Paradise to Topock and onto Needles then taking highway 40 and turning off at highway 95 through Lake Havasu and back to Parker. Looking for birds. Last time we were here […]
This will be a short post today as we only made it from Parker to Kingman, AZ which according to Google maps should only take 1 hour and 39 minutes. Instead, it took us the entire day. By the time it was 1 pm we had only gone 16 miles out of Parker. It started […]
Looking around Blythe for highlights of the area this one caught my eye… Cibola National Wildlife Refuge. Again this meant we have to backtrack about half an hour. It is just south of Palo Verde but on the other side of the Columbia River in Arizona. You notice a lot more in daylight than travelling at […]
Today we made it from Banning to Blythe, California but not by the way you would expect. Instead of going down highway 10 and instead of it taking two hours we took the long route. There were massive amounts of wind turbines along the way and I shot this picture out the car window. Doing a little backtracking […]
Our next stop on the map was the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert, CA. The plan for the day was were going to do a walk around the zoo and then do a circular route through the San Bernadino National Forest to end up in Palm Springs for the night. But… plans changed as […]
How did we get from San Jose del Cabo, Mexico to Indio, CA you ask? Well, we left Buena Vista Beach Resort on Monday to go to the airport. Had a lovely breakfast overlooking the ocean on the outside deck before we left. Listening to the waves on the beach and drinking fresh squeezed orange juice. We […]
Yesterday we ended up at Buena Vista Beach Resort and it was everything we hoped for in a hotel and more. When we headed up to the hot spring pool Rob was wearing his cowboy hat and a fellow that was already there said: “hey… are you from Texas”? Turns out they were and one of them […]
After our harrowing first day, we finally left Cabo San Lucas to Los Barriles. We decided to give Cabo San Lucas one more try that morning to see what the people find so fascinating about it. After looking long and hard down back and front streets, we found the highway heading out of town and took […]
We left home only 2 days ago heading for the Baja but it feels like we’ve packed a week into those 2 days. It all started with getting up at 2:30 am and going to the airport. Going through the checkpoint was relatively easy as there were little or no people there but Rob ended […]
