What a year.  A year of blessings, change, and sadness.  We were blessed with a precious grandson, our daughter moved very close to us and the family gets together often now.  We also had a heinous massacre that hit close to home and a war to follow.   It's hard to welcome the new year with … Continue reading For the New Year

It's crazy how time gets away from us.  Yes, we were busy producing a grandchild, driving to Denver to help Denver Daughter relocate to Michigan, and return to Sarnia to make up for some lost time with said grandchild.  Still, I could have written many posts and I didn't because I fell into a rabbit … Continue reading Spring in Fall

My Denver Daughter (soon to be Michigan Daughter) called me out to come see something in the backyard. At the corner, in the centre of the photo, there was a bird.  It didn't move. We inched closer and it just blinked. It was a northern flicker frozen in place.  It just stayed there with its … Continue reading Frozen Flicker

We arrived in Denver and got to work right away. Packing, booking shipping pods, strategising logical sequence of operations, were the priorities. We were greeted by a constant buzz.  Cicadas. These are not your common cicadas that emerge every 17 years to serenade us.  These are the really common cicadas that emerge every year and … Continue reading Snippets From The Road – Packing Up

Our plan was to head north to Las Vegas to visit my cousin and her husband, but the weather turned and now we were expecting snow in the mountains and very cold temperatures everywhere else on the way. We scrapped the initial plan for a detour to visit the Grand Canyon Western Rim, and soon … Continue reading Leaving Kingman – Weather Woes

I've been saving this clip to when we get to Kingman, so here it is, the famous Route 66 tune to set the stage. https://youtu.be/AqhQSfFtOVE We left Oatman, and seeing how close we were to Vegas, we decided to go north and visit relatives.  In the meantime, we headed to Kingman for the night. The … Continue reading Kingman

Route 66 from Oatman to Kingman descends down 191 curves, past Sitgreaves Pass and the memorial erected at the top, Shaffer's fishbowl, and Cool Springs Camp. That is, if you make it to the bottom in one piece.

Oatman is not just about burros.  A former ghost town revived by a group of free-spirited artists and became quite the attraction.  Like many other towns, Oatman has its roots in mining and was a gold rush boomtown at the beginning of the twentieth century. As a result of gold price drop, the mines shut … Continue reading OATMAN − THE TOWN THAT REFUSES TO DIE

We left you with our first encounter of the burros, which meant we were getting close to Oatman with the promise of more burros. Prepping for this post, it became very clear that this post will be about the burros and nothing else.  We'll tell you about Oatman next time. But back to the burros: … Continue reading Oatman Burros

We left Craggy Wash in the morning and continued our way up the Colorado River.  Havasu National Wildlife Refuge, a boaters paradise, was on our way, and since we didn't have a boat, we wandered by foot a bit. We hoped to see some wildlife, but there were none to be seen.  In fact, wildlife … Continue reading Too Many Dams, Not Enough Burros