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October 14, 2008 05:36 AM EDT --
With great regret, I’m closing the Tour of America blog today. This blog was started to document our 6-month voyage in an Airstream trailer, back in October 2005. The trip exploded into . . .
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October 14, 2008 05:36 AM EDT --
We’re in Tucson, and our full-time travels are over.
I could tally it by the numbers (75,000 miles, three years, 45 states, three countries, hundreds of stops, 31,000 photographs), but of course . . .
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October 14, 2008 05:36 AM EDT --
Our last(?) stop before Tucson is an assignment I’ve given myself, for the magazine. There’s a little airpark in the very remote town of Rodeo NM, where a group of “Sky Gypsies” . . .
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October 14, 2008 05:36 AM EDT --
From Albuquerque south we made very few stops yesterday. We paused for lunch and a water fill at a truck stop along I-25, then for chiles in Hatch, and not much else. It’s a peculiar . . .
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October 14, 2008 05:36 AM EDT --
We’ve left the Balloon Fiesta to roam down I-25 into southern New Mexico somewhere. We left on a high note: This morning the balloonists were competing to play a form of aerial . . .
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October 07, 2008 01:36 AM EDT --
I can see why hot air ballooning is so popular. You get to fly, in a beautiful object, on a beautiful day, and play with fire. People always look up and admire your aircraft. Balloonists . . .
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October 05, 2008 05:24 PM EDT --
Apparently I startled a few people by casually mentioning that this blog will end in about a week. I’ve talked about this on and off for the past year, but never declared a firm end date until . . .
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October 05, 2008 01:12 AM EDT --
Yesterday we met with 28 other Airstreams at the Camping World on I-40, and the entire line of aluminum caravanned together to the Balloon Fiesta Park on the north side of Albuquerque. From a gravel . . .
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October 03, 2008 04:48 PM EDT --
We’re heading out this morning to the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta!
Yesterday we took a daytrip to El Malpais National Monument and El Morro National Monument, both of which are about 30-40 miles . . .
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October 02, 2008 04:12 PM EDT --
Our great Four Corners circle tour is coming to an end. Over the past month we’ve wandered from Great Sand Dunes NP to Silverton CO, Mesa Verde NP, Hovenweep, Natural Bridges, Capitol Reef, . . .
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October 01, 2008 03:48 PM EDT --
The blog is a little sick today, as a result of changing over to a new web hosting service last night. Hang on and we’ll get it back up and running properly later today or Thursday.
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September 29, 2008 03:00 PM EDT --
In the interest of exploring further the mysteries of Canyon de Chelly, we got up before dawn for a ranger-led hike down the Tunnel Trail. Normally the trailhead is gated and locked, so the . . .
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September 28, 2008 02:48 PM EDT --
This national park is very different from the others. There are people living in it. The national monument, which is made up of both Canyon de Chelly (pronounced, “shay”) and Canyon . . .
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September 27, 2008 02:24 PM EDT --
“There’s not much there,” I was told about the Navajo country, by somebody in Utah. That’s true in the sense that there is little in the way of tourist traps, adventure tours, . . .
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September 26, 2008 01:48 PM EDT --
For all of our cheapskate travel, we don't often spend time in truly free campgrounds. We seem to either be in paying situation or staying off the established campground system, in private driveways, . . .
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September 25, 2008 01:24 PM EDT --
There is only one trick to seeing Betatakin Ruin, one of the best-preserved cliff house dwellings in the entire southwest: get up early.
The reason is the crazy time zones around here. . . .
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September 24, 2008 01:00 PM EDT --
About 80 miles from Page through rugged and open Navajo country has led us to Navajo National Monument. I can only post a quick blog right now because we are going to head off for a 5-hour ranger-led . . .
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September 23, 2008 12:48 PM EDT --
I really like visiting Page. In the first couple of years, when we were keeping an eye out for possible places to establish a home base, Page went on my list. I like the fact that it is remote . . .
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September 22, 2008 08:24 PM EDT --
Leaving the Grand Canyon’s north rim to Page AZ is one of those spectacular roadtrips that can only be found in Arizona or Utah. From Grand Canyon you cruise along Rt 67 to Jacob Lake, a small . . .
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September 22, 2008 04:00 AM EDT --
We left a few easy things for Saturday so we could have a relaxing day with Daisy and Don. For the most part, our plan was simply to drive out to the east end of the developed part of the North . . .
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