Northern Arizona Photo Essay Towering over Flagstaff and visible from many vantage points in northern Arizona, the San Francisco Peaks are the remains of a lone, extinct stratovolcano with a collapsed caldera surrounded by six summits. The volcano was active 1.4 million and 400,000 years ago and the original volcanic peak may have once reached […]
Exploring Arizona Attractions Before there was a national park, there was a train that went to the Grand Canyon. For over a century, majestic locomotives and train cars have carried passengers from Williams, Arizona to the south rim of the Grand Canyon sixty miles away. Today, the Grand Canyon Railway and Hotel keeps this tradition […]
Celebrating Seven Years of LadyBugBlog! It’s been a while since I’ve published an official post and today is a special day in this blog’s history. Seven years ago, May 5, 2010, was the launch of LadyBugBlog and I’ve shared many adventures with all of you so far. My original focus for this blog was to […]
After a long day of exploring California’s historic Route 66, the cone shaped lodgings rising from the palm tree surrounded property are a welcome sight. Since 1949, the Wigwam Motel in San Bernardino County offers explorers a chance to sleep in a teepee on Route 66.
Arizona Route 66 Side Trip to Meteor Crater Fifty thousand years ago, a giant fireball streaked across the North American sky and crash landed into the desert that is now northern Arizona. Over fifty years ago, NASA used this same spot as one of its lunar training sites. What is this place? If you guessed Barringer’s […]