This morning we awakened in Lake Havasu City, AZ, home to the reconstructed London Bridge. Robert McCulloch, of McCulloch Motors, Inc., imported the famous bridge and reconstructed it, block by block, to render the bridge as it is seen today. The bridge spans a canal cut between two inlets on Lake Havasu, created by the construction of Parker Dam, located 30 miles downstream.
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Today, we drove from Prescott, AZ, Northward to pick up Historic Old Route 66. Then, we drove from Ash Fork along the old highway through Seligman and on down to Kingman. When in Kingman, we stopped at the Harley Davidson dealership to look at the nice hardware and buy a souvenir tank top with the “Mother Road” and Kingman, AZ art on it.
You’ve seen pictures of the highway before, but I wanted to share this beautiful “Red Bird of Paradise” or “Pride of Barbados” blooming outside the Harley building. People often mistakenly call this the Mexican Bird of Paradise, but either of the two names I mentioned are correct. This is one of my very favorite shrubs – sadly, it doesn’t do well in our garden – too cool and not sunny enough, so I’ll just have to keep coming to visit them. Better yet, maybe I’ll live somewhere soon where they thrive.
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This is not a castle and nobody named Montezuma ever lived there. Regardless, this ruin built and inhabited by the ancient Sinagua, is an interesting place to visit near Camp Verde, AZ
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Click to enlarge Damsel’s photo.
Taken from Mather Point on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, this picture typifies the gorgeous and magnificent vistas that we saw today. Click on the image to magnificafize.
This colorful rock formation is in Canyonlands National Park in Southern Utah. Along the ridge, the “wooden shoe” arch is seen. Click for the full-sized panorama.
Today, we woke up in Moab, Utah. Our first stop for the day was at the Arches National Park. The Double Arch is a formation in the park that you can hike through to the other side of the two arches. Very pretty.
We went to Canyonlands National Park after this and eventually found our way to Chinle, AZ, where we will visit Canyon de Chelly tomorrow.
Today, we saw some of the most breathtaking scenery in the world. Not all of it was in Bryce Canyon, either. This scene taken from Sunset Point was pretty hard to beat, though. Click to bignify.
