clikrf8
Senior Member
I am planning our April trip to Arizona/New Mexico. Both states have much to offer to the traveler/photographer that we will probably confine ourselves to the northern Arizona area plus a quick foray into Northwest New Mexico for a few days. We are planning to be gone about a month plus. Since we are leaving from the far northwest corner of the US, it will take us a few days longer than some of you who live much closer. I would like to dawdle on the way down, stopping at the John Day National Monument (3 sectors), Shoshone Falls in Idaho, Great Basin National Park and Valley Of Fire State Park in Nevada before heading to either the Grand Canyon (south entrance) or the Vermillion Cliffs area. Hubby is the driver and would rather blow down I5 to somewhere in California and cross over into Arizona. I hate I5. I dislike freeways. People drive too fast and there is nothing to see except for semis and on/off ramps. What do you all do?
I have chosen some possible places to see in Arizona/New Mexico: Petrified Forest, Little Painted Desert, Monument Valley and Canyon de Chelly and some cool geology in the area surrounding each Navajo National Park, Bisti Badlands, some cool monoliths like Aglatha Peak and Shiprock Rock, Valley of the Gods (oops, that's in Utah), maybe Antelope Canyon, Coal Mine Canyon and some secret places a fellow photographer told me about, among others. I am yet uncertain of our way home but would like to return via 395 to visit our very old friends the Bristlecone Pines.
Any thoughts on this? Hubby is the driver so he decides but I am trying to convince him to dawdle.
I have chosen some possible places to see in Arizona/New Mexico: Petrified Forest, Little Painted Desert, Monument Valley and Canyon de Chelly and some cool geology in the area surrounding each Navajo National Park, Bisti Badlands, some cool monoliths like Aglatha Peak and Shiprock Rock, Valley of the Gods (oops, that's in Utah), maybe Antelope Canyon, Coal Mine Canyon and some secret places a fellow photographer told me about, among others. I am yet uncertain of our way home but would like to return via 395 to visit our very old friends the Bristlecone Pines.
Any thoughts on this? Hubby is the driver so he decides but I am trying to convince him to dawdle.