I am writing this as the sun comes up from our hotel room in Oak Creek, Sedona. We had a fantastic day yesterday, and so had little time to update the blog. Rising early from the hotel at Lake Powell, we packed up the car and checked out of the room ready to take our pre-booked boat trip up the lake to Rainbow Bridge National Monument. The structure in the blog photo is one of the largest natural bridges in the world (nearly as tall as the Statue of Liberty) and ...

It's so nice to have a short drive for once! It only took us about 3.5hrs to travel between the Canyon and Lake Powell. After checking-in, we drove out to Lower Antelope Canyon which is part of the Navajo Indian Reservation. Here we took a bumpy jeep ride out to these amazing Slot Canyons in the desert. They are formed from flash-fooding of the area and have to be seen to be believed. I took some more photo's with MY camera. I decided to buy some shorts (even tho...

We started the day with a 25mile drive to Desert View, where there is a watch tower which was completed in 1932 and designed by the Architect Mary Colter, who was one of very few female Architects working at the time. Colter actually designed and built many of the famous structures on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, including Hermit's Rest. After taking the obligatory 5000 photo's, we headed back along Desert View Drive to Grand View Point. After parking up an...

No photo as yet, even though I've just come back from the South Rim of the Canyon at sunset and forgot to take my camera, doh, doh and doh. We left the Bellagio around 10am and had another 5hr drive ahead of us. We took a little detour so that I could drive along Route 66 and ended up having lunch in a place called Williams. Now, I thought they would at least give us a free drink seeing as the town is my namesake, unfortunately, they didn't quite see it that way ...

Spent the last couple of nights in a few rundown hotels in the middle of the desert. Spent so much money I thought I'd been robbed. Would I come back to visit - err, yes - strange that aint it? To be honest, there isn't that much to say that hasn't already been said about this place. We splashed out and stayed at The Bellagio. It was as luxurious as I had expected and the pool area was stunning. We had the Bellagio Buffet breakfast, and this was quite expensive r...