Whoa is a familiar word to all of us horse riders, often used in plentitude, depending on the nature of the horse and the amount of control that we manage to deploy! It is […]
“Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.” -John Ruskin Bell Rock, a 1,499 metre tall butte of rich red sedimentary rock, that makes a truly eye-catching sight just outside […]
Approaching Sedona from the south, through Oak Creek Canyon, the eponymous Bell Rock is impossible to miss. A butte, composed of horizontally bedded sedimentary rock of the Permian Supai Formation, it stands 1468 m. tall. […]
There are great views from Jerome, set, as it is, high in the Black Hills of Arizona. I love the sight of snow in the distance, just beyond the red […]
Set in 320 acres of stunning Northern Arizona desert, stands the family-run dude ranch, Stagecoach Trails. I have spent two great holidays here already, and will, undoubtedly, return. There are many things that […]
Arizona has a cute but smelly inhabitant: the Javelina, or Collared Peccary. Though it looks a bit like a pig, it is not from the same family. It belongs instead to the Tayassuidae […]
Once a thriving copper mining town, Jerome is now a bustling tourist town. Set high in the Black Hills in Arizona, one of its many taglines is “America’s most vertical […]