brian hill and dee power camping and travel adventures
Going camping leaves a little more time for fun activities. It only takes a few minutes to straighten up the tent. Meals and cleanup don’t take much time at all. So maybe I should learn a musical instrument like how to play the bass. Of course a bass is rather large so maybe I should Continue Reading
Choose whatever superlatives you want, but the Grand Canyon’s beauty exceeds your ability to describe it. That’s why this blog will have more pictures than usual–in this case they tell a better story than words. We were camping near Flagstaff, Arizona and noticed we were not too far from Grand Canyon National Park, perhaps just Continue Reading
In search of relief from the brutal summer heat in Phoenix, we spent 5 days at a campground near Flagstaff, Arizona, surrounded by Ponderosa pine trees. The campground was cleverly called Pine Grove. This was a kind of homecoming for me because when I was a boy we owned a home not far from where Continue Reading
At first glance the meadow at Pine Grove, AZ, is just different shades of green surrounded by tall Ponderosa Pines — probably why they cleverly named the camp site Pine Grove. The edge of the meadow melts into deep forest. What you don’t see, at first, are the wildflowers … other than plumes of golden Continue Reading
Shown below are two pictures from vacations we have taken to the seashore, one recently, one several years ago. You can see in each of them a lovely view of the ocean. And each has a fairly uncrowded beach. I can tell you that we had a wonderful time on each of these vacations and Continue Reading