Prisoner of Hopes

Tag: perseverance

  • Casa Grande: Rural Road Trips

    It was supposed to be a road trip to visit lesser known national parks. But a government shut down causes to think even more outside the box. Local color saves the day.

  • Tlaquepaque: Rural Road Trip Arizona

    Tlaquepaque (tlock-ay-pick-ay) is a delightful and eclectic village of shops amid a historic looking adobe cluster of buildings.

  • Home Sweet Tokyo: Travel Goals

    We are off on another adventure. Today we spent fifteen hours in flight and six more in airports. We lost a whole day by crossing the international date line. I am tired and also excited as we land in Japan. I don’t speak the language and I can’t even read the alphabet (characters?). But I…

  • Gold King Ghost Town: Rural Road Trip

    Occasionally you regret almost immediately your choice of adventure. I’m sad to say, today was one of those days. I was enticed by advertising. Signs along the highway teased us with promises of the King gold mine. It was just up the road a bit higher on the mountain from Jerome. I love a good…

  • Jerome: Rural Road Trips Arizona

    Jerome is a little city with a big past and tenacious residents. It is built on a steep hillside. Some might call it a mountain. It once was the center of a mining empire. Today it is best known as a ghost town. There are only dozens of people who call it home. I drive…

  • Route 66 in Holbrook, AZ: Rural Road Trip

    We planned a three day stop in Holbrook, AZ thinking we would enjoy petrified forest national park. It is shut down, due to the government’s fight over the big beautiful bill. There isn’t much to do in Holbrook except the park. So….. We visit the rock shops. Turns out there is plenty of petrified wood.…

  • Trading Post: Rural Road Trip Arizona

    On our way to Canyon de Chelly, we stop at the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic site. To get here, we drove though miles of Navajo Country, wdesert and across a tiny one lane bridge. On the outside, the building looks as it once did. Adobe bricks baked by the sun form crude walls. A…

  • Canyons in Navajo Country: Rural Road Trip

    Sometimes a place calls to me with no rhyme or reason. Canyon de Chelly has jumped off the map for a number of years. It is off the main highways and requires a multi-hour detour through rugged landscape. Deep in Navajo country, the canyon has remained illusive. You have to mean to go there. It…

  • Thor’d: Rural Road Trips

    We bought a brand new Thor motor coach and I am thrilled with the lay out. No one tells you however about the problems that comes when you buy a new rig. So many moving parts that need to be tested and tightened. Our first weekend, we noticed our WiFi booster wasn’t working. Then the…

  • Iconic Texas: Rural Road Trips

    Rolling down highway 40, our big rig pulls into Amarillo Texas in late afternoon. After miles of rough road and cross winds, the rv park is a welcome relief. We quickly set camp and take a walk around the park. Like most RV parks along the interstates, this on is tightly packed and full of…