Happy 90th Birthday!

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

Purple striped desert

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

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

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

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.…

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

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

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

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

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