Month: October 2018

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Today we had a short drive from Barstow, California to Bakersfield, California. We are staying at Orange Grove RV Park. We haven’t been here before. There are orange trees at every site. You are allowed to pick them when they are ripe. They have a nice pool, bathrooms, and showers. Starting October 24, they will start serving free donuts with their free coffee (or tea).

Can’t believe it’s October already. We started our adventures June 1, four months ago.

Today we will go to Flagstaff. Errands to be run. Dave did the laundry, this morning (bless him, he’s wonderful!).

Tomorrow we head to San Jose to: visit friends, visit relatives, and go to Stanford for my quarterly check-up. We wil get there Thursday, spending Tuesday night in Barstow, and Wednesday night in Bakersfield.

Today we went back to Wupatki National Monument to see the remaining pueblos: Nalakihu, Citadel, and Lomaki with the nearby Box Canyon dwellings.  It is so hard to fathom how these and cliff dwellings were built.  The Citadel is huge, 200-300 feet tall.  They haven’t excavated it yet.  It was unbelievably windy at the top because of an approaching storm.

Today we went to Sunset Crater Volcano and Wupatki National Monuments.  We started in Sunset Crater and took the 34 mile loop road through the two parks.

Sunset Crater Volcano has a lot of volcanic rocks and cinder rock that is like rocky sand which plants have adapted to.  The volcano looks very pretty, but because of people causing damage, no one is able to hike up to it.  There are Ponderosa Pine, Quaking Aspen, Pinyon Pine, and Juniper trees.

Wupatki National Monument has pueblos that you can hike up to.  We went to Wukoki Pueblo first and Wapatki Pueblo, today.