We’re heading out for Mexican as our last dinner in Arizona. It’s been a great trip and we are all looking forward to safe travels home. Thanks everyone for checking this out and putting up with my typos and phone’s autocorrect. I will be sure to …

Tim just tried to tell the kids that we were going to get in the car to go explore more. The look on Chloe’s face could’ve killed. They’re excited to have a day at the pool, and we all think it will be a fitting end to a hectic vacation.

After a long drive back from the South Rim, through a couple national forests on a questionably chosen shortcut by yours truly, and despite an encounter with a lazy monstrous elk in the road, we’re safely back in Scottsdale. Tomorrow will be spent…

Tim and his demons are sitting on that point, behind the shrub, waiting for the sunset. By demon I don’t mean Susie, although she’s over there too. (Relax, their kids are in my care, a safe distance behind the railing protecting them from the rim….

First the trail around the volcano on The Big Island of Hawaii, now this. I never knew we were so adventurous. The trail boasts knee-wrenching loose rocks and steep exposed drop offs. Sounds like a nightmare. But I would’ve hiked it if wed been he…

So we decided to torment the kids again. We are making a detour to Grand Canyon Village at the south rim on our way back to Scottsdale. On our way is relative, its about a 2+ hour detour. Oh well. The route is pretty, as is evidenced by the pictur…

Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon created by flood waters coming into one major wash from hundreds of miles away. The canyon is incredibly narrow and made of soft Navajo sandstone making it constantly changing. Just three days ago the floor of the …

Which really is okay. For all the beauty in the surrounding area, this really isn’t a great place. The hotels are run down, very limited options for food, and high tension power lines everywhere. While the mesas and scrub trees are unique and scen…

So I decided to get way closer than I was comfortable because I knew I would regret it later. The view was amazing. Unreal. There are very few things that are as inspirational. Everyone is safe and we are starting the hike back to the car. Fortuna…