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[ski3pin]

New Mexico is now up, with a trip into the Bisti/De-Na-Zin wilderness and a day at Chaco Culture National Historical Park:

https://www.occident...020-new-mexico/

 

I think I can finish up our trip with one more post, Arizona....

 

Fun, fun, fun! We enjoyed New Mexico and look forward to Arizona!

[Occidental]

At last, the final post is mainly Arizona, and is now up:

https://www.occident...t-2020-arizona/

 

4000 miles round trip in 24 days, it was quite an adventure, figuring it out as we went.  

 

Thanks for following along!

[Vic Harder]

Loving these, and so jealous.  Feeling a whole mess of cabin fever, even more so now that the snow is falling.

[Stray Dog]

Thank you for the trip.  Really enjoyed it as you passed through so much country intimately familiar to us.  Late fall, early winter can be the best time to travel some of these areas.

 

We are headed into Arizona for the month of January to escape the cold of Colorado and enjoy more places we've seen only occasionally.  This won't be a trip for a camper though.  Committed to a month in the travel trailer instead.

 

Southern Arizona is gonna be nice!  Travel as you like, protect yourself and others through appropriate behavior.  Life goes on.

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Wow quite a trip.All those petrified trees,what beautiful colors.

Good thing you didn't collect any for firewood,they probably

are hard to get to burn.

 

Thanks for all the parts of your trip.

Frank

[Occidental]

Thanks Frank, I figured those things wouldn't light, but my better half kept insisting that if they didn't we would just have to take them home.  We left them there.....Thanks for following along!

[Occidental]

Stray Dog, I hope you have a safe and good trip.  There were lots of sites in the southern half of Arizona we had our eye one, but the combination of time and having to go through big cities deterred us on this trip.  Next time: Organ Pipe here we come!

[Durango1]

Stray Dog,

Sioux and I are heading down to southern AZ 1/14-1/30 for some warmer birdwatching. (We know it isn't prime season for birds but did I mention "warm"?) We're looking at the San Pedro Riparian area, Organ Pipe, etc.

 

Safe travels and thanks, Occidental, for some great photos!

Steve

[Stray Dog]

Durango 1:

 

Birds are a primary reason for our trip also (in addition to "the warm").  Looking specifically for a couple of spp I haven't been able to pick up yet. 

 

Staying in Karchner Caverns SP, Patagonia SP,  Gilbert Ray out of West Saguaro NP, Belly Achers at Ajo and Homolavi SP out of Winslow.  Also a night at the Posada Hotel in Winslow just for something different. Staying at each of those places for up to a week.  

 

Intend to visit San Pedro and other nearby sites as day trips.  Maybe we'll run into you.  White 2017 F150 with Colorado Plates.

[goinoregon]

Thanks goinoregon. As far as the electronic maps, I actually use a variety.  I usually mark up google maps with all the potential places to go and then save a large area where I'll be travelling for offline use.  In addition to the obvious navigation and such, offline google maps have come in handy a few times this year when we had just enough service for a phone call but couldn't look anything up.  We were able to search in maps and find phone numbers to gas stations for example, when looking to see who had propane.  When I get closer to where I am going I usually use avenza with maps I have already saved for the area.  All the benchmarks are available in avenza on a state by state basis, so that is really handy, as they have a lot of detail.  I also download the national forest and national park maps if I am going to be spending any time there.  Most national parks have their map in avenza for free.  On this trip I found several BLM maps available for the Bears Ears areas.  More recently I have started using basecamp as well.  Basecamp has really accurate ownership layers and a ton of other data, and you can save for offline use as well.  

thx for the mapping info ! my build is scheduled to be complete in early march. will see.  gathering gear right now, but thinking about the road.