Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell National Recreational Area.
The Navajo Bridge crosses the canyon
Thom is keeping an eye on the car's odometer - we're almost to 100,000 miles,
14,000 of which we have driven this trip.
The beginnings of the Grand Canyon.
Just north of Flagstaff, we stop at Wupatki National Monument and Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument:
This 800-year-old pueblo has over 100 rooms, and the village has a community room (pictured)
and another circular structure that was used for ball games.
Other pueblos were smaller. Some have been stabilized,
but otherwise they are as they were when discovered in the 1800s.
A black mountainside from the latest volcanic eruption in the 1200s.
The scarred landscape of the lava
We are heading south to Heber, Arizona, and we reach the 100,000 miles mark!
In Heber, our niece and our GREAT niece and nephews are heading to a Halloween party.
We need to make room for two passengers in San Diego! We unload the car and divide stuff up into what will fit in Thom's panniers for the cycle trip, what will fit into a little suitcase for Sheila, what will fit into a suitcase for Thom and Sheila to take to Britain, and the rest gets boxed up and left.
Then we can relax.
Well, maybe not Thom - he still has to train for the coast to coast bike ride that starts 3 November. Their blog address is www.is.gd/KbVUzb and they are Two Welsh Dragons and a New Jersey.
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where Jett gets a ride in the wagon too.
Time to carve the pumpkins. Here is Parker with his happy face, and his pumpkin's.
It's hard work...
a ghost, an owl, and Halloween faces...
and the results are worth it!
27 October 2012: We leave Heber and head south to the Phoenix area, but we go via Globe so that we can check out the bike route between Globe and Mesa. Hilly, windy, scenic, warm/hot, and there will be a big climb through Gonzalez Pass; it will be a long 70 miles!
Salt River Canyon, north of Globe, Arizona
Gonzalez Pass, Rt 60 near Superior, Arizona
Superstition Mountain, Apache Junction, Arizona
We are staying in Mesa with former Florida neighbors, the Jensens.
Their daughter shows talent as a make-up artist with these
Halloween creations for herself and her brother!
We are delighted to spend an evening with Sheila's nephew's family in Gilbert.
We are becoming experienced pumpkin carvers!
First, you have to dig deep...
Halloween Hands!
Only then does the design and cutting process begin.
That's the way you get great pumpkins!
Their daughter shows talent as a make-up artist with these
Halloween creations for herself and her brother!
We are becoming experienced pumpkin carvers!
and get over what we are calling....
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