Happy 90th Birthday!

Last Thursday, 21st April 2016, the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom turned 90 years old. There were many … More

Purple striped desert

The Petrified Forest National Park includes a large section of painted desert. It is of course not actually painted with paint … More

After safely emerging from the Superstition Mountains, I headed further north in Arizona to the Petrified Forest National Park. A … More

Leaving the modern visitor attractions behind me, I ventured on into the Superstition mountains. I was confident that I would not … More

I’m briefly interrupting the tales of my recent trip to Arizona to touch on some cultural differences between UK and the US university sports. … More

Slightly further along the road from Apache Junction in Pheonix towards the Superstition Mountains a far more modern collection of items has … More

At the most southern tip of the Tonto National Forest lie the Superstition Mountains. At the southern approach to the … More

The Grand Canyon isn’t the only place in Arizona which features travertine – the limestone deposited by highly mineralised waterways. … More

On the fourth day, we got up early to break camp while the sun was rising. I took this picture … More

On our way back from Beaver Falls to Mooney the perspective changed. Obviously. We were walking up river. Facing all … More