Imagine yourself many years ago, traveling Route 66 through the Navajo and Apache Counties of Arizona. A dry desert landscape, with some of the most stunning views in Arizona. If you enter from the east, through your car window you will see a colorful badlands landscape of high cliffs and steep mesa tops. Layers of sedimentary rock in beautiful bands of reds, whites, light blues, and greys wrap around the cliff sides. The longer you look at the earth before you, the more colors and formations you can pick out. Driving from the west, you enter the area and begin…

We all grew up seeing the pictures on post cards, seeing images in movies, and the occasional family member telling us about their firsthand experiences. Some of our favorite childhood sitcoms often featured an episode about the Grand Canyon. I distinctly remember the episode where the Brady Bunch went to the Grand Canyon. Throughout our lives, it's one of those places that we all dream of a long road trip in the station wagon to stand on the rim of a gigantic cliff overlooking the Colorado River at the bottom. The truth is, until you actually see this wonder, you…

Old Ore Road, inside Big Bend National Park, is a spectacular back country road for off-road enthusiasts. The National Park service has a page dedicated to this 26 mile long road and gives details on the type of vehicle needed to traverse it. We were driving a 2024 Ford F350 4x4 and felt comfortable attempting the drive. However, once we began this journey, there were a couple of times that we wished we had a narrower and more agile vehicle, like a Jeep. That said, we made the trip and escaped with minor scratches from the bushes to our paint…