During the 1950s, it was decided that the story of the mining town of Jerome needed to be told to the world. While Jerome had great success, it also persevered through great hardships. Fires, collapses, landslides, and economics were all things that had brought Jerome to its knees on many occasions. Yet, Jerome still stands in all its glory, nestled into the side of a mountain, in central Arizona. It's the town in the cliffs, seen from the city of Cottonwood and Clarkdale below. It was decided that building a state park, that could tell its history, would be the…

It is day 3 of our visit in Terlingua Texas, near Big Bend National Park, and the locals have urged us to go visit the state park nearby. So today we visited Big Bend Ranch State Park, and "Wow! What a fantastic experience." Big Bend Ranch State Park is over 300,000 acres of land along the Rio Grande River and inside it are numerous cattle ranches that operate under Free Range laws. That means, the cattle on these ranches aren't contained and any landowners not wanting cattle on their land are responsible for fencing to keep cattle out. FM 170…