Destination Unknown

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Petrified Forest and Painted Desert

While we were in Cottonwood, Arizona, we took a day trip to the Petrified Forest National Park, which is also on the edge of the Painted Desert. Arizona is a beautiful state. When we arrived, we drove along the edge of the Painted Desert first. The pictures do not come close to the majestic beauty that is there.

After driving along the edge of the Painted Desert, we entered the Petrified Forest. The petrified logs are amazing.

This tree was splintered into wood chips. It is amazing how much it really looks like wood chips.

We have not done a lot of sightseeing, but what we have done has been awesome. I hope you enjoyed the pictures.

Kay and I are having a wonderful trip. I still feel like I am on vacation. We finally have better cellular and I could put this blog post together. Now I am only one month behind! I should be able to get caught up this week. We send our love to all of you following the blog. Leave us a comment so that we can feel the love.

Russ and Kay

About Russ and Kay

I am a camper at heart. When I moved to Colorado, I bought a tent and family vacations were spent camping in the mountains or at National Parks in nearby states. The family loved it. We did a lot of primitive camping. Years later, I met and married Kay. I still had my old canvas tent and we started camping. We had such a disastrous first experience that I am surprised that Kay continued camping with me. We promptly upgraded to a HUGE nylon tent with a built in fly. We continued to upgrade and bought a used popup and thought that was terrific. We were still camping on sites with no water or electricity. One day a co-worker announced he was selling his old travel trailer. It was a bargain, so we bought it. We continued to camp on sites with no electricity and water. Then, in 2005, we bought a brand new 29-foot travel trailer and a Chevy 2500 HD Silverado pick up to pull it. Our first trip out was going to be our favorite state campground with no water or electric hook ups, but it was closed. We went to Salisbury Beach campground which had both water and electric hook ups. Kay loved it. We received a flyer from Tuxbury Pond RV Resort Campground in New Hampshire, so Kay suggested that we camp there the next weekend. Our camper left Tuxbury Pond for only one more trip that year (Baltimore, MD) and then never left again. I did not need my 2500 HD because that trailer never left the campground until it was traded for our new trailer in October 2015.

The adventure has begun. I retired on September 1, 2016 and we are on the road to destinations unknown.

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