New Detours

Travel

In this section of the blog, you will get to explore the world with me and recount everywhere that I have traveled. I will include my own interpretation of events, cultural differences, venues, music, restaurants, touristy and off the beaten-path discoveries, unique experiences and encounters, interactions with new friends along the way, reviews of food, tips on how to travel cheaply, workarounds when in difficult situations, and also, colorful misadventures. Join me and let's take a detour!

Travel
Pirate Tower: 8.7.16
Pirate Tower: 8.7.16
11/30/2020

This Pirate Tower is located in Laguna, CA. The single tower is built into the side of the cliff facing the ocean. You can park anywhere and walk the coast to get to the tower. Should you want some hi...

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Chocolate Falls (Grand Falls): 12.27.19
Chocolate Falls (Grand Falls): 12.27.19
11/30/2020

This is definitely worth going off the beaten path for. To get to this waterfall, you must drive through one of the Native American reservations. Finding the main trail was hard, but then finding the ...

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Petrified Forest and Painted Desert: 12.26.19
Petrified Forest and Painted Desert: 12.26.19
11/30/2020

We completed this adventure during the northern Arizona winter. It was cold, but not unbearable. What did make it challenging, however, the wind. The God forsaken wind! For the first part of the journ...

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Meteor Crater: 12.25.19
Meteor Crater: 12.25.19
11/30/2020

This meteor crater is a neat, but is more in line with a one and done sort of attraction. Literally, you walk in, you see the crater, you're done. Nonetheless, it is impressive. It is the the sit...

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Cathedral Rock & Sedona Cave: 6.1.19
Cathedral Rock & Sedona Cave: 6.1.19
11/30/2020

Sedona Cave and Cathedral Rock are pretty close to one another in Sedona, Arizona so it is easy to complete both in a day. Sedona Cave is about a 1.5 mile round trip hike. The mini cave is neat. You c...

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Montezuma's Castle & Montezuma's Well: 6.1.19
Montezuma's Castle & Montezuma's Well: 6.1.19
11/30/2020

First and foremost, Montezuma's Castle is a tourist trap that is certainly not worth it. Secondly, Montezuma's well is way more interesting and dynamic than Montezuma's Castle. To be fa...

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Humphrey's Peak: 7.5.19
Humphrey's Peak: 7.5.19
11/30/2020

Humphrey's Peak is a 12,633 foot ascent, 11 mile hike in Flagstaff, Arizona. We completed this hike in just under 7 hours. Realistically, we probably would have completed this in 6 hours, but, on...

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Heart Rock: 12.22.18
Heart Rock: 12.22.18
11/30/2020

Heart Rock is a 1.67 mile hike in Cedarpines in the San Bernardino National Forest. It is very picturesque and was nice and crisp when we went in the early morning. Admittedly, although we were planni...

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Graffiti Waterfall: 2.4.17
Graffiti Waterfall: 2.4.17
11/30/2020

This hike isn't even a mile and is more of a slow, leisurely "hey look there's stuff" sort of hike. The allure is that this interface between natural and urban art is: 1) It is on private pr...

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Devil's Bunch Bowl: 2.16.19
Devil's Bunch Bowl: 2.16.19
11/30/2020

Devil's Punch Bowl is marked as a 6 mile, strenuous hike. Six miles it is, strenuous it is not. Well, that is a partial truth perhaps. It depends, really, on one's preference to uphill or do...

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